Senior members of the military have appeared on television, saying they are now in control of the oil-rich, central African country.
They’ve ordered all institutions to be dissolved.
Military leaders also announced the cancellation of Saturday’s election result.
The electoral commission says President Ali Bongo won a third term in office.
He’s said to have got nearly 65 percent of the vote.
We have Al Jazeera’s Nic Haque from Dakar and Ahmed Idris Niamey the capital of Niger where last month, the military also took over power for the latest updates.
And Ovigway Agwaegu is a Security Analyst for Afripolitika, a Africa Security consultancy.
He joins us from Ankara for his analysis.
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Cameroon will be next, wait and see.
Let’s just see how this goes. xD
Bravo 👋👏 too the army and its people….
Next uganda
Yeah being living decades with luxury and people in Poverty sad truth
Greedy old leaders u dey want rule 3rd time. He dey see oill!! , Comot him and reorganise new parties for a more visible Democratic elections . Dey shul exile this family to the desert
Congrats you’re just went from political dictatorship to military dictatorship 😂
Who helped these guys china? Russia a communist regime socialism sux
When will the Philippines have this kind of honorable and nationalistic soldiers?
Nigerians what are you waiting on? Flush BULABUU TINIBUBU and his gang
It is about time African leaders stopped declaring themselves winners of any elections held even if it in dubious ways.
I wish you all the best.🎉
What country is the next in line?
France need to mine its own business in france and stop interface in Africa. Let the Africans enjoy the price of their own resources to uplift their own country and not France
we are listening to a correspondent located at least 2000km from Gabon telling us about the situation in Gabon. is this news ?
More African nations need to do this now – use the momentum created by Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger to liberate as many nations from imperial rule as possible! NATO and its colonial powers can’t stop you all! If you do this one by one they will concentrate their forces specifically on you, but if every nation liberates themselves at the same time they will not be able to, and they will be at your mercy for resources and labor. Now is the time to break free from western imperialism! Without you, Europe and North America are weak! Weaken them and you help break their grip on the rest of the world – it is time to end western hegemony once and for all! Break your chains, for you have nothing to lose, and the whole world to gain. Workers of Africa unite!
Congratulations Gabon
Next is Military coup is Cameroon 🇨🇲 followed by Equatorial Guinea .
😂ruled by one greedy bunch of family members only..😮
Years more than our ancestors 😂
I’m loving everything about these coups in Africa. Africa stand up and fight.
When will it happen in East Africa because this system soon is going to be some of countries eg Uganda, Rwanda and south Sudan.😮
Congratulations I’m with you west African coup countries 🙏💪, much love from Uganda 🇺🇬🇺🇬🇺🇬
So basically this year is a bad year for france….. well done to the Gabonese forces🤝🏾.
A country in Africa loaded with oil a military coup took over here come america to pretend they are going to help in a humanity effort
Where is Zimbabwean learn from this western countries
I pray God give this military rulers wisdom to lead his people
It’s not a coup but a second revolution, congratulations Gabon.
GABON 🇬🇦
The kind of people we need in AFRICA
Bravo!!! Next is +256!!!
People of Rwanda, Cameroun and Uganda, it’s your turn to get ride of your dictator leaders.
next coup will be Djibouti ,, 🤔🤔🤔🤨🤨🤨🤨
Go Gabon 🇬🇦 Go Africa 🌍 They’ve had enough of being mineral-rich & economically poor 😢 😞
Wake up ⬆️ NIgerian 🇳🇬 When are we also hearing about this New now!!!!! I want military to take over too or what do you guys think 😅
The old guard all around Africa is on notice, here’s to hoping the transitional governments do not prove to be more of the same and do not simply presume to establish their own dynasties.
Nigeria will be next though the military in Nigeria are worse than the corrupt politicians colonial powers are still holding too strong in Africa they won’t let go because of Africa rich resources
It’s time African people to raise up we are tired of presidents clinging to power forever, why can’t they emulate the late Mandela 😢 leave when they still love you
Economic freedom for the people of Africa. If not now, when? Unite Africa! ☮️🙏🏽🫶🏽🌍💯👊🏽⚖️
The cards falling one after another. We are witnessing history in making in west Africa. West Africa will never be the same after the moment of this time in history.
Pls for ds years ago are they using traditional rulers? How youths will get themself right like ds many poeple graduates every year in African an still die without gain what he/she schools for
Let them remove a worsted constitution every government should only b used 4yrs term an no longer pention payment for retire from govnor join Senate pursue president d greedy is 2much
Wtf is going on. The instability is on another level
Our friends in Middle East are using the same God given Natural resources to generate wealth for their Countries while us in Africa continue to exhibit our Selfish mindsets in the governance of our respective Countries. How can one family be at the helm of Leadership of a Country for over a period of 50 years?….. Are they the only family with the wisdom and knowledge to effectively and effeciently run the economic and governance affairs of Gabon?….. With all the Oil reserves Gabon has why have they failed to use such a resource to better their Citizens welfare. France supports such confusion because it benefits from such disorganisation…. France has taken advantage of the high levels of selfishness amongst its former Colonies Leadership.
It’s because Africans historically are a subservient race of People. Other races have higher Eye Qs and a more developed frontal lobe.
Good Job by the Military : I love what the African Military are doing to these STUPID presidents who are corrupt and wont think twice before they scavenge their already dead economies. The Military need to keep in check all these corrupt “leaders”.
Commenting from Germany but i am a Nigerian. If the Nigerian military fail to do the needful, we will occupy our country until they are forced to cease power from the petty thieves who parades themselves shamelessly as our leaders. I wonder how on earth a drug peddler becomes the president of the greatest black nation on earth
REVOLUTION NOT A COUP ITS MOTHER AFRICA WAKING UP…VIVA AFRICA 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🥂🥂🥂😎😎😎
Peoples are hurry about the End Time.
Finally Africa 🌍 is awakening and am loving every bit of this leaders have become dictators puting the citizens to slavery of hanger and hardship how can one family be ruling a country for 56yrs yet we say we are in Democratic world. Is this not sad? Even in sickness life threatening illness because of selfishness and greediness he refused to let go . Am happy
ECOWAS has another crisis on their hands
Well done now Gambia is next and senegal
congratulations Gabon 🇬🇦❤️
We Africans must fight French NEOCOLONISM!
I am not pro military takeover, but in Gabon
It is from father to son.
Democracy is not working in Africa
It is the TIME to wake
Up Arica!
We, Africans must
Unite to fight Imperialism. and Neocoloniasm!
Africa belongs to the countries that can pay the most bribes to the African states man. This is not victory but a new era for another western country or CHina to install their own puppet that will keep the business of plundering continuing.
Great job defending your country from invaders who take so much of your minerals and wealth such as FRANCE
Licencing of the Produce of weapons and exporting and importing it, as if a male is corrected by a weapon he produced.
Such conduct is relying on understanding which is false and proof seen, by man and female.
BE STILL, correct yourself and see you have what you depend to gain through man and objects.
♾️🕉️♾️
Another day in Africa 😒
Primitive Africa was a land of brothers being a brothers keeper.
But those who accepted the foreign suggestion, harden the hearts of the male parent against their children and the childrens heart against the male parent.
AFRICA CORRECT YOURSELF.
THERE WAS LIFE BEFORE CIVILIZATION.
CIVILIZATION came with hate, illness and death.
BE STILL AND HEAL YOURSELF, AFRICAN MAN.
Praise to the holiest God on his throne in heaven i
Since is a coup backed by the US this is a good coup of course 😉 bad Niger l, Gabon we care less 🎉
This is not coup this is African Revolution !!!
This is what APC did in Nigeria and military kept quiet. But they want to invade Niger Republic.
If your leader serves more than 8 years or 2 terms it’s not a democracy 😅it’s socialism facisim or communism aka Russian 20+ year Putin dictatorship
What? A 7-year term? Craziness
Wow! Never thought i would see African nations removing themselves from colonization and from the rule of corrupt families or parties. *You can do it Africa!*
What has African really benefited from coups? Will coups liberate Africa? In as much we’ll fighting for a better Africa, we should as matter of imperativeness consider the future of it next generation. Africa countries should strategically deal with it formal colonial masters and have a permanent presence of better independent Africa countries
Where are the AU, the Observers from various countries of the so called Election. They are waiting to hear comment from various people. AFRICA WHY
Any Military solution is suicide. The weapons on either side are too powerful, each soldier is equally equipped to produce a field of bodies without any harm to himself. It’s suicide to fire the first shot, there is no military solution to injustice.
Congratulations for standing up for the oppressed people.
Africa has become a continent of abuse by those in power claiming they have won elections again and again thousands of times. When they are killing opponents and abusing the nationals.
Happy for you guys! Job well done. Look at all those countries in Africa with leaders who have climbed to power, put their families as the leaders. Killing all young people!
People , come on😊
Where is African Union when presidents change constitutions to favor them, stay in power for 30 years and kill young people who talk about the inequality????
So called African Union! Really? They should be ashamed of not delivering, they witness vote ridge and the endorse. Come on.
When the supreme don’t deliver, that’s what happens
Well Planned coup ❤
African Union should be ashamed for condemning reasonable coup like this.
I hope if the next coup d’État will be in my country (Congo/DRC) for to remove Félix-tshilombo from the top of state very soon!
Long term sitting family French holdings territories. Perhaps its Cameroon, Togo army taking over next.
😅⁰⁰
I’m happy Africa is waking up now ever than before
All francophone colonies world wide languish in abject poverty despite natural their wealth.Yellow vests protest in France and West Africa uprising is revolution hot fire that must be televised.✊🏾✌🏽🙏🏼
Africa is waking up the sleeping sons of Jacob.
The number of fake African comments is astonishing. Al Jazeera, close these troll comments
All the insecurities is been instigated by France 🇫🇷
The economically prosperous countries should cut themselves off from the savage African countries who only know instability immediately
Zimbabwe wake up
How french will react?? The coup did not happen in France. He should keep his nose out of this.
Lol just wait and see on the results of a military coup. Nothing good with a military coup. Those generals have an agenda
The CIA gonna be upset..
Man God is looking out for my people.
Please get Red off these western appointed presidents that are here in Africa one by one please including their military bases and rule ur own Continent we are sick of getting used.
Thats exactly what trump said
know this is the true indipendence having elections in all africa continent is all cap everybady knows
thats exactly what we are going through in Uganda
If only the Nigerian military had the same courage during their fraud elections as well.
Now France doesn’t want to leave Niger😂😂, go home.
Happy Independence Gabon🎉🎉🎉
“France has really profited [from Gabon’s oil] in the last couple of years” that reporter needs a history lesson. Viva Africa 🤍
50+ coup attempts happened in African country since 2010, I hope it ends well for Gabon, Niger, and the others.
Most of these leaders that have made the presidency a family business are watching and taking notes. Like some two in East Africa.
It’s not really Democracy given how these votes where done