Gabon's Deposed President Ali Bongo Calls on People to 'Make Noise'
Ali Bongo, the president of Gabon is under house arrest after a political coup. In a video obtained by Bloomberg, Bongo calls on the people to "make noise." Soldiers appointed the head of the republican guard as the country’s new leader, annulling elections in which Bongo secured a third term.
Soldiers in Gabon appointed the head of the republican guard as the OPEC member state’s new leader, hours after placing President Ali Bongo under house arrest and annulling elections in which he secured a third term.
The putsch in the former French colony is the ninth in sub-Saharan Africa in the past three years, and follows a coup in Niger last month. The military takeover drew condemnation from the US, Nigeria, France and the African Union, as it sparked a slump in the nation’s dollar bonds and raised concerns of a spill over of the selloff to other African countries with high political risk.
General Brice Oligui Nguema will serve as Gabon’s transitional president, according to a statement read out on state television in the capital, Libreville, on Wednesday evening. The junta said it will maintain a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the nation of 2.3 million people, and urged residents to return to work on Thursday.
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