- Nguema asks ministries, state institutions to resume work
- Gabon soldiers seized power in a coup early Wednesday
Gabon will swear in General Brice Nguema as transitional president on Sept. 4, as the country’s junta decided to reestablish the Constitutional Court on a temporary basis.
The junta appointed the head of the republican guard as transitional president on Wednesday, hours after seizing power in the OPEC member. The process will lead to a gradual set-up of transitional institutions, a military spokesman said on state television in the capital, Libreville, on Thursday evening.
Soldiers placed President Ali Bongo under house arrest and annulled an Aug. 26 election in which he secured a third term. The military officers also dissolved the country’s institutions.
Nguema, who is also chairman of the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions, as the junta calls itself, instructed all secretaries-general of ministries and all heads of state services to resume work immediately and ensure continuity in public services.
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