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.
We need a democratic system in which the power of the state cannot subjugate the power of the people. We need to work out and build...
The military's assertion of control commenced on Wednesday, shortly after the election commission of Gabon declared Bongo as the re-elected president in the aftermath of the...