ECOWAS has not reacted officially to the latest announcement but has been putting pressure on the junta since 2020 to return civilians to power.
Those reasons include issues linked to the adoption this year of a new constitution and a review of the electoral lists, he said.
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...
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We all know what happened during the Arab Spring. The world has been through all these things and it does not make progress to anybody. But...
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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...
On January 23, 2022, Burkina Faso’s military staged a coup and ousted President Kaboré. The coup leaders accused the government of failing to stop the Islamist...
Disturbed by the rising wave of coups on the continent, African countries have started reshuffling their military and taking measures to avert it. With Gabon coup...