The African Union’s Peace and Security Council has suspended the Central African Country Gabon from it’s membership.
Soldiers took over the government in Gabon on Wednesday when the sitting president Ali Bongo Odimba was announced winner in the general election for another seven years tenure.
The junta announced it will on Monday inaugurate its leader, Gen. Brice Nguema as the “transitional president of the country. The swearing-in of Gen. Nguema will take place at the constitutional court, said the junta’s Spokesman, Col. Ulrich Manfoumbi, yesterday.
But Gabon’s main opposition, the Alternance 2023 coalition, wants the coup leaders to declare it as the winner of Saturday’s disputed presidential election.
Meanwhile, Gabonese have trooped to the streets hailing the soldiers for ending the Bongo family’s almost 56 years in power in spite of the coup having drawn international condemnations.
The AU yesterday said it had decided to “suspend the participation of Gabon in all activities of its organs and institutions”.
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In obvious reactions to the Gabon coup, two African countries have rejigged it’s military to prevent the Niger and Gabon trend by retiring their generals and and turning round their military structures.
Rwanda instantly retired 12 generals and 678 soldiers
and Cameroon reorganised the Defence Ministry with new appointments.
The Rewanda Defence Forces explained that prominent figures from Rwanda’s 1994 liberation war, including Gen. James Kabarebe, Gen. Fred Ibingira, and Lt. Gen. Charles Kayonga, were among the retirees.
Kabarebe and Kayonga previously held the position of chief of defence staff of the Rwandan Army.
Other retirees are Lt. Gen. Frank Mushyo Kamanzi, currently Rwanda’s ambassador to Russia and Maj. Gen. Albert Murasira, a former defence minister.
Cameroonian President Paul Biya approved fresh appointments(controllers) within the Defence Ministry’s central administrative unit.
90-year-old President Biya who has been in power for 41 years is one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders.
