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Gabon coup leaders name General Brice Oligui Nguema as new leader
BBC Aug 30, 2023
Gen Nguema is carried triumphally through the streets of the capital Libreville by his troopsImage source, Reuters
Image caption,
Gen Nguema was carried triumphally through the streets of the capital Libreville by his troops
By George Wright
BBC News
Army officers who seized power in a coup in Gabon on Wednesday have named General Brice Oligui Nguema as the West African state's transitional leader.
Gen Nguema was earlier carried triumphally through the streets of the capital Libreville by his troops.
The deposed President, Ali Bongo, has appeared in a video at his home, calling on his "friends all over the world" to "make noise" on his behalf.
The former French colony is one of Africa's major oil producers.
Africa's coup pandemic spreads
Mr Bongo's overthrow ended his family's 55-year hold on power.
Army officers appeared on TV in the early hours of Wednesday to say they had taken power.
They said they had annulled the results of Saturday's election in which Mr Bongo was declared the winner but which the opposition said was fraudulent.
The officers also said they had arrested one of Mr Bongo's sons for treason.
Re: Another Muslim leader overthrown in West Africa, BBC
According to your liturgy it means that you are going to establish and live in the old Christian kingdom of byzantine's heaven on earth. You sound like the paranoid Christian terrorist, Joseph Kony who kidnapped forcefully thousands of young children to fight for his Lords Resistance Army (LRA) organization in an effort to establish virgin Christian State based on the Old Testament but then before that he got shot and killed by the Ugandan army so that he may go and meet his LORD in person.Mesob wrote: ↑30 Aug 2023, 21:59Will Abiy Ahmed Ali be the next? Is Issaias Afeworki's real name: Issa al Farka Ibrahimo?
Gabon coup leaders name General Brice Oligui Nguema as new leader
BBC Aug 30, 2023
Gen Nguema is carried triumphally through the streets of the capital Libreville by his troopsImage source, Reuters
Image caption,
Gen Nguema was carried triumphally through the streets of the capital Libreville by his troops
By George Wright
BBC News
Army officers who seized power in a coup in Gabon on Wednesday have named General Brice Oligui Nguema as the West African state's transitional leader.
Gen Nguema was earlier carried triumphally through the streets of the capital Libreville by his troops.
The deposed President, Ali Bongo, has appeared in a video at his home, calling on his "friends all over the world" to "make noise" on his behalf.
The former French colony is one of Africa's major oil producers.
Africa's coup pandemic spreads
Mr Bongo's overthrow ended his family's 55-year hold on power.
Army officers appeared on TV in the early hours of Wednesday to say they had taken power.
They said they had annulled the results of Saturday's election in which Mr Bongo was declared the winner but which the opposition said was fraudulent.
The officers also said they had arrested one of Mr Bongo's sons for treason.
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