The Gabon presidency announced on social media on May 12 that Lourenco had met Oligui in Libreville for talks focused “on strengthening bilateral cooperation, the smooth...
The spokesperson of the vice president, Mr Stanley Nkwocha, who made this known in a statement, said Nigeria remains supportive of the peaceful democratic transition in...
Bongo, who was himself under house arrest for several days after the coup, is free to move around and go abroad, Gabon’s new military ruler General...
My advice to Africans is to think of how to fix a problem rather than to shift blame, and for economy to be fixed, it needs...
“They have largely not drifted away from the old qualification of being a club of authoritarian dictators. In that connection, their demand for restoration of elective...
Now that Tinubu is our president, it won’t be a bad idea if, once in a while, he descends on Agege in Lagos or visits Ijebu-Jesa...
Military coups are not the solutions to multi-facet problems bedevil African countries. The solution before the poorly developed continent are: strengthening our constitutional democracies, abolishing the...
Bongo, 64, suffered a stroke in 2018 and spent months outside Gabon, receiving treatment in Morocco raising questions about whether he was fit to continue as...
Bongo had been president for 14 years. He succeeded his father Omar, who ruled the country for 41 years, gaining a reputation for kleptocracy and iron-fisted...
Military leaders named the head of the Presidential Guard, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, as the country’s interim leader on Wednesday evening.