{"id":2863,"date":"2023-08-30T06:42:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T06:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2023-08-30T06:42:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T06:42:06","slug":"military-takes-over-power-in-gabon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2023\/08\/30\/military-takes-over-power-in-gabon\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Takes Over Power In Gabon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Army officers have appeared on national television in Gabon on Wednesday to announce they have taken over power in the West African country, BBC reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">They said they were annulling the results of Saturday\u2019s election, in which President Ali Bongo was declared the winner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The soldiers who introduced themselves as members of the CTRI (The Committee of Transition and Restoration of Institutions) said, \u201cWe have decided to defend peace by putting an end to the regime in power.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The electoral commission said Bongo\u2019s main challenger, Albert Ondo Ossa, had come in second place with 30.77%. Bongo\u2019s team have rejected Ondo Ossa\u2019s allegations of electoral irregularities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">His overthrow would end his family\u2019s 53-year hold on power in Gabon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Details later\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army officers have appeared on national television in Gabon on Wednesday to announce they have taken over power in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2863\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}