The African Union has decided to suspend Gabon’s participation in all activities of the organization until constitutional order is restored in the country. This is stated in the African Union’s statement posted on social network X (formerly Twitter).
The African Union also condemned the military intervention that resulted in the overthrow of President Ali Bongo Ondimba in Gabon on 30 August.
A group of high-ranking officers in Gabon on the morning of August 30 spoke with a statement on the country’s main television channel regarding the annulment of the presidential election results and the abolition of the institutions of power. The officers declared that they had taken power into their own hands and represented the country’s Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces. Against this background, there were reports of a gunfight in the capital, Libreville.
Sergei Fedorov, one of the leading researchers of the European Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that the coup in Gabon after the seizure of power in Niger was even greater. weakens French policy in Africa. According to him, the main problem is that African countries are not satisfied with Western influence.
Previously recognized The fate of the ousted Gabonese President.