cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1550739
"Gabon military officers claim power, say election lacked credibility Television announcement comes shortly after state election body announces incumbent Ali Bongo had won a third term as president.
A group of senior military officers has gone on national television in Gabon saying they have seized power because elections held over the weekend were not credible.
The officers, appearing on Gabon24 in the early hours of Wednesday morning, said they had cancelled the elections, dissolved all state institutions and closed the country’s borders.
They said they represented all security and defence forces of Gabon.
The announcement came shortly after the state election body said President Ali Bongo Ondimba had won a third term in office in Saturday’s disputed elections.
“In the name of the Gabonese people … we have decided to defend the peace by putting an end to the current regime,” the officers said.
The Gabonese Election Centre said Bongo had secured 64.27 percent of the vote compared with 30.77 percent for his main challenger Albert Ondo Ossa, after a process beset by delays.
Further Context: https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2023/08/26/gabon-will-ali-bongo-ondimba-rule-for-another-five-years_6108971_4.html
Bro the Revolution be heading to central africa
The CIA must be absolutely losing their shit
I will just post the political map of Africa in case anyone wants to check it out. I don’t know where most of the African countries are situated geographically:
Thank you, I needed this
Rise africa rise… It’s time to bash the heads of US and EU. Down with imperialism
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Gabon is like a major oil producer near the Gulf of Guinea. For a very long time most of its oil money went to a francophone upper class, leaving most of the population in poverty. It was one of the few colonies of french equatorial africa that supported the vichy government. Most of the population is considered part of the Fang ethnic group, similar to the mainland of equatorial quinea.
anyone with more details about the overthrown government and how much popular support this coup has?
Too early to say, but for what it’s worth some videos of people celebrating in the streets are already circulating:
https://nitter.net/The_Real_Fly/status/1696789325055197295
https://nitter.net/DD_Geopolitics/status/1696790187484008628
We can view this as anecdotal evidence of at least some measure of popular support.
It seems that the previous regime was an extremely corrupt military dictatorship, with criminal amounts of public funds embezzled. I doubt anyone will miss them
Some facts about the corrupt dynasty that had been in power for decades there and that was just overthrown:
https://nitter.net/AfricaFactsZone/status/1696757811504447540
You can post stuff like this in [email protected] as well. I am trying to make the community more active.
Tried to tbh but posted to [email protected] on accident. There are three worldnews communities that show up, with no differentiating text indicating which is where. Annoying tbh.
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