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General Oligui Nguema shows how to run a coup

The putschist general may stay in power after a constitutional change allows him to stand in next year’s elections

Having secured a 91.8% ‘Yes’ vote in the 16 November referendum on the new constitution, transitional head of state General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema is set to run for the presidency in elections slated for August 2025 – despite his initial disavowal, like most of his putschist peers in the region, of any plans to extend his stay in power.

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