The announcement got here after a gathering of the council on the self-discipline in Gabon following Wednesday’s coup that followed disputed elections whereby President Ali Bongo Ondimba was declared the winner.
The African Union’s Peace and Security Council acknowledged it has decided to “right away suspend” Gabon following the military coup in the nation this week.
The body acknowledged on X, formerly Twitter, that it “strongly condemns the military takeover of energy in the Republic of Gabon” and has decided “to right away suspend the participation of Gabon in all actions of the AU, its organs and establishments”.
The announcement got here after a gathering of the council on the self-discipline in Gabon following Wednesday’s coup that followed disputed elections whereby President Ali Bongo Ondimba was declared the winner.
It acknowledged the assembly was chaired by African Union commissioner for political affairs Bankole Adeoye of Nigeria and the recent holder of the council’s rotating chair, Burundi’s Willy Nyamitwe.
The takeover ended the Bongo household’s nearly six a protracted time in energy and created a brand new conundrum for a station that has struggled to contend with eight coups since 2020.
Nigeria’s president Bola Tinubu known because it a “contagion of autocracy”.
“My effort has been confirmed in Gabon that copycats will open doing the same thing till it’s far stopped,” Tinubu, who chairs West Africa’s predominant regional body ECOWAS, acknowledged on Thursday.
The same previous who overthrew Gabon’s Bongo dynasty will be sworn in on Monday as transitional president, the military acknowledged, because the opposition known as for its candidate to be recognised because the winner of weekend elections.
The military sought to reassure donors they would possibly “respect all commitments” at dwelling and in any other nation and “part in” transitional establishments, Colonel Ulrich Manfoumbi Manfoumbi, spokesman for the brand new regime, acknowledged on command tv.
The swearing-in of newest chief Fashioned Brice Oligui Nguema will happen at the constitutional court, acknowledged the spokesman, providing the first indication of how the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI) would function following Wednesday’s putsch.
ECCAS condemned the coup, asserting in a press originate that it deliberate an “imminent” assembly of heads of command to search out out how one can retort. It didn’t give a date.
Senior officers in Gabon launched their coup earlier than sunrise on Wednesday, quickly after an election body declared that Bongo had conveniently won a third time-frame after Saturday’s vote.
In a while Wednesday, a video emerged of Bongo detained in his station, asking world allies for lend a hand then again it appears blind to what was taking place spherical him. The officers also launched that Nguema, feeble head of the presidential guard, had been chosen as head of command.
Central Africa’s political bloc, the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), condemned the coup in a press originate, asserting it deliberate an “imminent” assembly of heads of command to search out out how one can retort. It didn’t give a date.
