The central bankers will push more 'green' taxes when their wargames no longer suffices to prop things up.
Surprising twist in Africa.
🇬🇦 General #Nguema named #Gabon’s transitional #leader after coup
General Brice Oligui Nguema, the head of the coup and leader of Gabon’s elite Republican Guard – the unit in charge of the president’s security – has been named as the country’s transition leader.
Nguema is an influential figure in the country and is believed to be related to the deposed president and, which is more important, to the USA.
“The president of the transition insists on the need to maintain calm and serenity in our beautiful country. At the dawn of a new era, we will guarantee the peace, stability and dignity of our beloved Gabon,” military spokesperson said.
Also coup leaders said there would be a curfew from 6pm to 6am.
Interestingly that comparing to the Niger case, there are no westwide condemnation of the coup. No immediate sanctions, no threats. This just confirms suggestions that this is a pro-US coup.
#Gabon
@africaintel
Ben Gurion/Meyer Lansky connection
After World War II, close aides of David Ben-Gurion, who would later become the first prime minister of Israel and was instrumental in the founding of Mossad, forged tight-knit relationships (https://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/260133/gangsters-for-zion) with Meyer Lansky, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, Mickey Cohen and other Jewish gangsters of the period. They used their clandestine networks to establish a vast arms smuggling network between the United States and Zionist settlements in Palestine, arming both the Haganah and the Irgun paramilitary groups
This is the bankster way, drown a country in debt while lining their own pockets through their partners and have a sale for the country's assets.
Worst of the wost.
🇬🇦 #Gabon24, the national television station, continuously plays an address by the #military. Officer declared that they will "put an end to the current regime".
"All institutions of the republic have been dissolved - the government, the Senate, the National Assembly, the Constitutional Court, the Economic Council, the Electoral Commission. We call on the population, the communities of sister countries living in Gabon, as well as the Gabonese diaspora, to calm down," they added.
Meanwhile, videos and photos of people that are happy with the coup started to surface on the internet.
Africa Intel wants to remind everyone that Gabon is not a member of ECOWAS. That is why threats similar to Niger ones will not be possible. Still, Gabon is a member of Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). But the only member country with capable army is Chad (like in ECOWAS). If we ignore Chad's neutrality and imagine invasion into Niger scenario, there are not enough power for TWO invasions (if the same threats are going to be addressed to military in Gabon).
The situation gets more and more interesting.
#Gabon
@africaintel
https://nostr.build/av/c3ad388e5ef9f64bac80aaa7ea64a9d1020f5bc8fbda9a73e6987fc6e0417bd6.mp4
Africa is becoming more of a contested hotbed. Does the EU and the US still have the financial means or political backup to fight for their colonies?
🇪🇺🇬🇦 #EU to discuss #Gabon after takeover announcement
European Union defence ministers are to discuss the situation in Gabon, EU's foreign policy chief Josep #Borrell has said.
"If this is confirmed, it is another military #coup which increases instability in the whole region," Borrell said speaking to a meeting of EU defense ministers in Toledo, Spain.
"The whole area, starting with Central African Republic, then Mali, then Burkina Faso, now Niger, maybe Gabon, it's in a very difficult situation and certainly the ministers have to have a deep thought on what is going on there and how we can improve our policy in respect with these countries," he said.
#EU #Gabon
@africaintel