Gabon military seizes State Radio in apparent coup

Military officers seized Gabon’s national radio to read a statement announcing they want to install a “restoration council” in what appears to be a coup, as gunfire rang out over the capital, Libreville.

Wisdom is scarce for a world overdosed in information

EU observers have officially stated Gabon’s vote “lacked transparency”. But that doesn’t count for much on a continent where political leaders are blindly loyal to peers regardless of their tarnished records. Witness the African Union’s defence of Robert Mugabe and Omar al-Bashir.