AP: While #Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba called on people to “make noise” to support him, crowds instead took to the streets of the capital and sang the national anthem to celebrate the coup attempt against a dynasty accused of getting rich on the country’s resource wealth while many of its citizens struggle to scrape by.
The head of the #Gabon republican guard tells Le Monde that President Bongo has "retired." https://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2023/08/30/gabon-ali-bongo-est-mis-a-la-retraite_6187089_3212.html
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"We're following this very, very closely," White House NSC spokesman John Kirby tells reporters.