{"id":184773,"date":"2023-08-30T11:52:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T08:52:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/?p=184773"},"modified":"2023-08-30T11:52:19","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T08:52:19","slug":"soldiers-in-gabon-announce-the-cancellation-of-elections-after-ali-bongo-ondimbas-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/soldiers-in-gabon-announce-the-cancellation-of-elections-after-ali-bongo-ondimbas-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Soldiers in Gabon announce the cancellation of elections after Ali Bongo Ondimba&#8217;s victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-184774\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/000_339J67B.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/000_339J67B.jpeg 980w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/000_339J67B-300x169.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/000_339J67B-768x432.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/000_339J67B-696x391.jpeg 696w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/000_339J67B-747x420.jpeg 747w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Soldiers appeared on Gabonese national television, announcing the cancellation of recent election results and the dissolution of \u201call the institutions of the republic\u201d.<br \/>\nThe apparent coup follows shortly after the national election authority\u2019s announcement on Wednesday that Gabon\u2019s President Ali Bongo Ondimba had been re-elected for a third term.<br \/>\nA soldier appearing on TV channel Gabon 24 said, \u201cWe have decided to defend peace by putting an end to the current regime\u201d.<br \/>\nGunfire is reported in the Gabonese capital, Libreville, according to media reports.<br \/>\nGabon\u2019s political opposition branded the election a \u201cfraud orchestrated by Ali Bongo and his supporters\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-184775\" src=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/33TZ22C-highres-1693376853.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/33TZ22C-highres-1693376853.webp 570w, http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/33TZ22C-highres-1693376853-300x200.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soldiers appeared on Gabonese national television, announcing the cancellation of recent election results and the dissolution of \u201call the institutions of the republic\u201d. The apparent coup follows shortly after the national election authority\u2019s announcement on Wednesday that Gabon\u2019s President Ali Bongo Ondimba had been re-elected for a third term. A soldier appearing on TV channel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184773"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184776,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184773\/revisions\/184776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}