He was a collaborator of the ex-leader… The coup general took an oath
General Brice Oligui Nguema, leader of the transitional government, the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI), which took power in Gabon on August 30, was sworn in.
The CTRI statement announces that General Nguema has been sworn in before the Constitutional Court as “president of the transitional government.”
General Nguema, commander of the Republican Guard, served as an aide to former President Omar Bongo until 2009, when he died. Nguema, who had a disagreement with Ali Bongo, who took over after the death of his father, was sent to the Rabat and Dakar embassies in Gabon as a military attaché and expelled from the country.
Nguema, who has served as commander of the Republic Guard since 2019, is known to have long-standing kinship and close ties to the Bongo family.
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GABON, LAST DIRECTOR OF IMPACT SERIES IN AFRICA
In the Central African country of Gabon, a group of soldiers entered the national television building early on the morning of August 30, announcing that they had taken over administration. The military, which called itself the “Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI)”, announced that the elections held on August 26 were canceled and the country’s borders closed.
The current President Ali Bongo Ondimba won the presidential elections held on August 26 for the third time. A curfew was imposed alleging that “violence” was practiced in the last hours of the electoral process in the country, and the Internet was restricted while the post-election vote counting process continued.
Father Omar Bongo first came to power in 1967, and when he died in 2009, his son Ali Bongo was sitting in his chair. The Bongo family ruled Gabon for 56 years. (AA)