Gabon coup: Bongo's rule ended by failed promises and shifting alliances
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Failed developmental promises, ever shifting domestic elite alliances and popular demand for better living conditions contributed to the military removal of Gabon’s Ali Bongo Ondimba.
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Gabon's Decadeslong Dynastic Leadership in Jeopardy After Coup
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Gabon coup: Bongo's rule ended by failed promises and shifting alliances
A group of senior military officers in Gabon announced on national television on Wednesday they had taken power and election results were annulled, just minutes after President Ali Bongo was declared…
Rebel officers in the oil-rich central African state of Gabon announced on Wednesday they had seized power following disputed elections in which President Ali Bongo Ondimba, in power since 2009, had…
Leading military figures in Gabon announced on Wednesday that they had placed President Ali Bongo Ondimba under house arrest in a bid to remove him from power after 14 years. The attempted coup comes…
Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba, whose ouster has been announced by rebel officers, came to power in 2009, succeeding his father Omar, the country's ruler for more than four decades.
Army officers took to national TV in the west African state on Wednesday morning to say they had assumed control, in the latest military takeover in the region.
A group of military officers in Gabon said they had dissolved state institutions and placed President Bongo under house arrest. The ousted leader has called for his supporters to "make noise."
The Bongo family has ruled Gabon for more than 50 years. The presidential election wasn't expected to change that. The tiny oil-rich nation is grappling with high unemployment while the elite live luxuriously.
Soldiers in the pre-dawn hours popping up on television to announce they’d overthrown Ali Bongo just one hour after just as suddenly election results in the dead of night gave Bongo a third term in office.…
Elections in Gabon have ended in a coup, with the country’s military leaders seizing power following an announcement that President Ali Bongo–a member of a family that has controlled the Central African nation for over 50 years–had won a third term in office
The junta has scrapped the outcome of the country’s general elections after it was declared that President Ali Bongo Ondimba had won a third consecutive seven-year term.
In tonight's edition : Gabon's president pleads on video for help after soldiers depose him hours after widely criticized election results return him as leaders. And to mark the international day of…
President Ali Bongo has won a third term in the presidential election with 64.27% of the vote, the Gabonese Election Centre (CGE) said on Wednesday, after a delay-plagued general election that the opposition…
A group of senior Gabonese military officers appeared on national television in the early hours of Wednesday and said they had taken power, after the state election body announced President Ali Bongo had won a third term.
Mutinous soldiers in the central African country said Wednesday that they were overturning the results of a presidential election that was to extend the Bongo family's 55-year hold on power.
Army officers of the African nation of Gabon have asserted on national television that they have taken power and invalidated Saturday's election, in which President Ali Bongo was declared the winner.
Mutinous soldiers in Gabon proclaimed their republican guard chief as the country’s leader Wednesday after placing the just-reelected President Ali Bongo Ondimba under house arrest, alleging betrayal…
