Gabon
Oligui will take over as “interim president”.
Gabon is in complete transition after a coup. On Monday, General Price Oligui Nkuma will be sworn in at the Constitutional Court.
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At right, General Bryce Oligui Nkuma.
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Gabon’s new strongman, General Price Oligui Nkuma, was overthrown Ali Bongo Ondimpa, will take the oath “Interim PresidentMonday, September 4, in front of the Constitutional Court, the rulers announced on Thursday.
General Oligui “decided (…) to establish gradual transition institutions” in power, announced on state television, the spokesman for the transition committee, Col. Ulrich Manfumbi Manfumbi. and Reorganization of Institutions (CTRI), which brings them all together. Army commanders.
“The Best Solution”
The opposition’s main platform in Gabon on Thursday asked the military to complete the vote count to recognize the “victory” of its candidate. The Alternance 2023 platform called on the security and defense forces to debate “in a patriotic and responsible framework, to assess the situation and find the best solution among Gabonese people” to “allow the country to get out of this”. situation.
A group of military chiefs pledged Thursday that Gabon will honor all its commitments on internal and external projects. push. “Brigadier General Bryce Oligui Nkuma, the Interim President, wishes to assure all donors, development partners and state creditors that all steps will be taken to guarantee our country’s compliance with its obligations, both external and internal,” it announced on state television. Col. Ulrich Manfoombi Manfoombi is the spokesperson for the Institutional Transformation and Restructuring Committee (CTRI), which brings together all military commanders.
The African Union Peace and Security Council met on Thursday to review the situation in Gabon, the UN said in a statement. “Currently – the AU Peace and Security Council is meeting to review the situation in Gabon,” the AU said in its statement, broadcast on X (formerly Twitter).
The meeting will be chaired by the African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs of Nigeria, Bangol Adeoi, and Burundian Willy Nyamidwe, the current rotating president of the council, the statement added, without further details.
On Wednesday, the head of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, “strongly” condemned what he described as a “coup” in the oil-rich central African nation of Gabon for more than 55 years. Family.
(AFP)
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