A group of senior Gabonese military officers appeared on national television in the early hours of Wednesday and said they had taken power, minutes after the state election body announced President Ali Bongo had won a third term.
If successful, the coup would represent the eighth in West and Central Africa since 2020. Coups in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger have undermined democratic progress in recent years.
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A lack of international observers, the suspension of some foreign broadcasts, and the authorities’ decision to cut internet service and impose a night-time curfew nationwide after the poll had raised concerns about the transparency of the electoral process.
It is important to note that it is a very dependent on oil country and that its oil reserves are about to de depleted. Oil has created huge income inequality, with the 20% of the population earning 90% of the income. So their gdp per capita is pretty high but misleading.
Well it certainly seems the African continent might be the flash point for WW3.
How do you figure?
Wagner moving their forces there, coupled with the irony of humanity beginning in Africa and ending in Africa.
That’s great and all, but the simple fact that Wagner is participating doesn’t make it a world war.
And the simple fact that a dude was assassinated in Bosnia?
There’s an incredible amount of other context around that event that led to war. Very little of that is present now. The similarities are very very small.
