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In all six countries that have suffered coups over the past three years, France maintains deep economic, political and security ties
In all six countries that have suffered coups over the past three years, France maintains deep economic, political and security ties
The toxicity of derangement, which inflicts so many of the world’s powerful people, is very dangerous.
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.
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.
Bongo won a disputed election in 2009 following the death of his father, longtime leader Omar Bongo, and is now nearing the end of his first 7-year term in office.
Yesterday the Catholic Church set late Benedict Daswa on the path to becoming South Africa’s first saint. Daswa, a school principal, was bludgeoned to death in 1990