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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Crucially the new charter would not prevent General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema from being allowed to run for President...
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Gabon's President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema has extolled his country's partnership with Beijing hailing China's role in bolstering Gabon's digital economy – which made it the first Central African country to test 5G technology – and praising China's provision of preferential loans to construct three modern vocational centres...
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The agreement includes a training program for Libreville's special forces and $5 million to support the country's democratic transition and is set to be unveiled when Gabonese interim President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema visits Washington in September or October...
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Washington sees the possibility of China building a military base on the coast of Gabon as well as other port investments by China on the African Atlantic coast as a strategic threat and is pulling out the stops to prevent junta leader General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema from going any further (AC Vol 64 No 21 General Nguema consolidates his palace coup)...
But after a relatively smooth first months in power for coup leader and transitional President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema a period of greater political complexity threatens...
The difficulties Biya faces were illustrated by the effort by the leader of Gabon's junta Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema to add Cameroon's capital to his tour of the region...
A month after General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema and his allies seized power in the wake of the disputed elections the new regime is stepping up its diplomatic and business outreach as it launches investigations and audits of President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba's government and family...
Do you think the leader of the transition General Brice Oligui Nguema will be a candidate in the next presidential elections...
(the father of Gabon's new military leader Gen Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema is a Fang from Gabon which borders Biya's native South Region)...
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Unlike the military reshuffle in Cameroon on 31 August there's no sign that Kagame's moves were triggered by General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema's putsch in Libreville (AC Vol 64 No 18 General Nguema plans the transition and his political ascendancy)...