The soldiers who orchestrated a coup d'etat in Gabon announced they had appointed General Brice Oligui Nguema as their interim president.
The “Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions” — which orchestrated a coup d’etat in Gabon, central Africa, on Wednesday — announced that it had appointed General Brice Oligui Nguema as its interim president following the ouster of longtime strongman Ali Bongo Ondimba.in a televised statement on Wednesday that it had placed Bongo under house arrest and would seize power in the country, dissolving the leadership of all federal institutions.
The Bongo family did not allow political parties outside the PDG to exist between 1967 and 1990. Following their legalization, the family held regular sham elections to legitimize its stranglehold on power. Gabon held such an election on Sunday and announced Ali Bongo had allegedly won in a landslide minutes before the soldiers appeared on television on Wednesday, canceling the results of the “election.
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