A failed coup attempt in Gabon, Morocco’s main ally

Gabon soldiers have seized national radio station in a failed coup attempt only one week after President Ali Bongo delivered a speech to his people from Rabat. The Gabonese government announced hours later that things are «under control» and that it has arrested the soldiers who briefly took over the station, wrote the Guardian.

«The government is in place. The institutions are in place», the same source said, quoting the Gabonese government’s spokesman Guy-Bertrand Mapangou, who reported that the four soldiers were arrested and a fifth one is being «searched for». This failed coup took place as President Ali Bongo is currently in the Kingdom of Morocco to recover.

The Gabonese President flew to Morocco after he was hospitalized in Saudi Arabia because of a stroke. He arrived in Rabat on November the 28th, 2019, after accepting the proposal of King Mohammed VI, said his wife Sylvia Bongo in a Facebook post.

For the record, Bongo was transferred to a hospital on October the 24th after he suffered a stroke during a conference. The country’s top court ruled, at the time, that Gabon’s vice president will head the cabinet in his absence.