{"id":2016346,"date":"2023-08-30T03:16:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gabon-coup-military-leaders-say-they-are-taking-power-and-nullifying-weekends-election\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T03:17:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:17:45","slug":"gabon-coup-military-leaders-say-they-are-taking-power-and-nullifying-weekends-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gabon-coup-military-leaders-say-they-are-taking-power-and-nullifying-weekends-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabon coup: Military seizes power, voids recent election."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgabon-coup-military-leaders-say-they-are-taking-power-and-nullifying-weekends-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2016346&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Army Officers \u200cin\u200c Gabon Declare Takeover\u200c and Invalidate Election Results<\/h2>\n<p>On national television, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/west-point-military-academy-expels-8-cadets-requires-51-to-repeat-a-year-after-biggest-cheating-scandal-at-the-academy-since-1976\/\" title=\"West Point Military Academy expels 8 cadets, requires 51 to repeat a year after biggest cheating scandal at the academy since 1976\">army officers<\/a>\u200d in Gabon have \u200dmade a \u2063bold announcement, asserting their power and nullifying the\u200c results of Saturday&#8217;s election, which \u200bdeclared President Ali Bongo as \u200cthe \u200cwinner. This \u200bmove would effectively end \u200dthe 53-year \u200crule of Bongo&#8217;s family over the country.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve soldiers appeared on TV to \u200ddeliver this news, with one \u200bsoldier emphasizing that the country&#8217;s borders would be closed &#8220;until further notice.&#8221; Their decision to \u200dtake\u2063 action was \u2062driven by concerns over the\u200d current regime&#8217;s irresponsible and unpredictable governance, which has led to a deterioration in social \u200bcohesion and the risk of chaos, as reported by the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly\u2063 after the broadcast, reports emerged of\u200d loud gunfire in the capital city of Libreville, indicating potential unrest and resistance to the soldiers&#8217; declaration.<\/p>\n<h3>Opposition Alleges Election Interference and Lack of Credibility<\/h3>\n<p>The opposition to Bongo in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-project-veritas-cnn-special-correspondent-jamie-gangel-details-how-channel-should-cover-up-trumps-contested-election-claims-video-cnntapes\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Project Veritas: CNN Special Correspondent Jamie Gangel Details How Channel Should Cover Up Trump's Contested Election Claims (VIDEO) #CNNTapes\">contested election<\/a> has\u2062 raised serious concerns about the credibility of the process. They have accused Bongo of interference and purposefully withholding information,\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gabon-coup-military-leaders-say-they-are-taking-power-and-nullifying-weekends-election\/\" title=\"Gabon coup: Military seizes power, voids recent election.\">including\u200d restricting foreign\u200b journalists<\/a> from reporting \u2063on the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>If \u200csuccessful, this coup would mark the eighth\u200c seizure of power in West and \u200cCentral Africa since 2020, according to Reuters. The recent coup in \u2062Niger has already raised alarm among international partners, including the United\u200b States, who fear the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/like-something-out-of-black-mirror-how-an-australian-town-became-a-smart-city-overnight\/\" title=\"\u2018Like Something Out Of Black Mirror\u2019: How An Australian Town Became A \u2018Smart-City\u2019 Overnight\">potential consequences<\/a>\u2063 of further instability in\u200b this turbulent region.<\/p>\n<p>Gabon, situated \u2064along the Atlantic Coast in west-central Africa, now finds itself at the\u200d center of a significant political upheaval.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabonese army officers announced on national TV that they have seized control and nullified the recent election, where President Ali Bongo was declared the victor. Twelve soldiers stated that they were invalidating the disputed results, potentially ending the Bongo family&#8217;s 53-year reign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2016347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2016346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}