Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania, and Senegal are among the invited leaders. The news of the summit comes after a ...

West Africa: Cameroon, Gabon Demarcate Border to Reduce Poaching in Congo Basin Peter Fitzgerald / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) A map showing West and Central African countries.

On August 30th officers in Gabon, a petrostate of 2.4m people in central Africa, became the latest men in uniform to announce on grainy state television that they had taken over their country.

Analysis - Recent coups in the West African nations of Gabon and Niger caught U.S. diplomats a little off guard. They also indicate Washington may need to reassess its policy in the region or risk ...

Since 2020, coups have taken place in Mali, Chad, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger and now Gabon. There has been a “domino effect of political uprisings” across these nations, said Ali Rogin at PBS .

So far, eight ex-French colonies in West and Central Africa have fallen to military rulers in just three years, ... exp gabon politics Africa FST 083112PSEG2 cnni world_00003801.png.

Democratic governments in West and Central Africa are being increasingly challenged by the military. ... Ali Bongo Ondimba and his father have ruled Gabon for over fifty years. By Peter Mwai.

A military coup thrust the Central African nation of Gabon into turmoil Wednesday, unseating the president – whose family had held power for more than half a century – just minutes after he ...

Declan Walsh, the chief Africa correspondent, reported from Nairobi, Kenya. Dionne Searcey, the West and Central Africa bureau chief from 2015 to 2019, reported from New York. Aug. 31, 2023 ...

The military coup against Gabon’s long-ruling president, Ali Bongo, comes amid political upheaval across sub-Saharan Africa. Accessibility statement Skip to main content Democracy Dies in Darkness ...

Gabon, on the west coast of Africa has had few leaders since its independence from France in 1960, with Omar Bongo ruling as president for more than four decades until his death in 2009. During ...