Mutinous soldiers in Gabon have announced that the head of the republican guard will be the country's new head of state, hours after saying they had placed the newly re-elected president under house arrest.
LLIBREVILLE, Gabon — Mutinous soldiers in Gabon announced late Wednesday that the head of the country's elite republican guard would lead the Central African country, hours after saying they had placed the country's newly re-elected president under house arrest.
"Thank you, army. Finally, we've been waiting a long time for this moment," said Yollande Okomo, standing near soldiers from Gabon's elite republican guard, one of the units that staged the takeover. The former French colony is a member of OPEC, but its oil wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few — and nearly 40% of Gabonese aged 15 to 24 were out of work in 2020, according to the World Bank.
The coup attempt came about one month after mutinous soldiers in Niger seized power from the democratically elected government, and is the latest in a series of coups across West and Central Africa in recent years. The impunity those putschists enjoyed may have inspired the soldiers in Gabon, said Maja Bovcon, senior analyst at Verisk Maplecroft, a risk assessment firm.
This video grab shoes the spokesperson for the mutinous soldiers speaking on state television as they announce that they had seized power in Libreville, Wednesday.
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