These little details which deliver the ubiquitous face in a shot prepared well in advance. Evocations.
The coup in Gabon is unique in its kind because for the first time, we have the impression that the new strong man of this country is not the one who instigated the coup. The media therefore announced that he was designated as the one to assume the transition at the head of the country. By who ? His comrades in arms, we understood. It is exactly as if the soldiers had spontaneously gotten together, had organized the fall of Ali Bongo without a thinking head. It was after the mission was accomplished that they would have set their sights on the brigadier general who, moreover, guarded the presidency. The video which played in a loop in the early morning of August 30 on the web presented this state of affairs in the courtyard of the Palais de la Rénovation in Libreville.
If we take the recent coups on the continent, it is quite simply a break in the modus operandi. Whether in Mali, Burkina Fasso, Guinea or Niger, the military makes the announcement on national television, well aware of the mastermind of the coup. It is also a move that gives the appearance of achieving national consensus.
We therefore saw the General President of the Republic go to visit the home of Ondo Ossa, obviously the big winner of the presidential election of August 26, also mentioned by the military to justify the coup d'état. And that's not all. A few days after the attack, Ali Bongo Ondimba regained his full freedom to come and go.
We know today, for example, all the pressure put on the new power in Niger to free Mohamed Bazoum. In Burkina, Mali and Guinea, deposed heads of state head straight into exile as soon as they regain their freedom. The Gabonese example is curious from this point of view. A third point which makes this coup d'état unprecedented is the mawkish condemnation of regional organizations or the international community. The Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States (Cemac), the Economic Community of Central African States (Ceeac) or the African Union (AU), stood out with laconic outings to demand a return to the constitutional order. The United Nations and the world powers, great defenders of democracy, have taken it easy, contenting themselves with following current events with great attention while on social networks a video of the deposed President of the Republic begged his friends through the planet to make noise to save its power. Nothing but icy silence in return.
The other facet of the Gabonese coup is the resemblance between the Committee for the Transition and the Restoration of Institutions (Ctri) in Gabon and the Military Council of the Transition in Chad where the military has the possibility of being candidates for office. presidential election at the end of the transition. It is known that while Deby Itno Mahamat will be in the race at the end of the transition to the presidential election just like Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema in Gabon, the putschist military in West Africa is required to hand over power to civilians faster. Those who seem to endorse the military in Central Africa are the same ones who are up in arms against the military in the Sahel.
By Léopold DASSI NDJIDJOU
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