“Tensions between the country’s civilian and military leaders have been escalating amid a spiraling economic crisis,” reports The Wall Street Journal.
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.
Zimbabwe entered a third day of political limbo as talks dragged on between President Robert Mugabe and military generals who took power.
Burkina Faso soldiers met little resistance as they entered a presidential guard camp in the capital where members of the elite unit were holding out after a coup.
Heavily armed troops crushed protests in Burkina Faso’s capital Ouagadougou after a former spy chief seized power in a military coup on Thursday.