2023-10-24 06:47:09
After suspending part of its foreign aid to Gabon, the United States announced Monday that it would cut all of it following the coup d’état in the country on August 30. Libreville, however, received little American aid, unlike other countries such as Niger.
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The United States cut all of its aid to Gabon on Monday, October 24, in response to the August 30 coup in the Central African country, indicating, however, that it was ready to reverse its decision in the event of democratic progress.
Washington, which had already stopped part of its foreign aid at the end of September, formally declared that a coup d’état had taken place in Gabon, which under American law implies putting an end to all non-humanitarian aid.
“We will take it up at the same time as concrete actions by the transitional government towards the establishment of a democratic regime,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said in a statement. “The United States supports the Gabonese people in their democratic aspirations, prosperity and stability.”
Limited American aid
On August 30, the Gabonese army overthrew President Ali Bongo Ondimba, who had been in power for 14 years, a coup denounced by the international community. The former head of state was proclaimed winner of a presidential election widely criticized for irregularities.
Gabon, a land rich in oil, received little American aid, unlike other countries such as Niger, which also experienced a coup at the end of July.
Gabon’s new military-appointed prime minister, Raymond Ndong Sima, has called for coups to be distinguished. The intervention of the military in Gabon was a “lesser evil” to avoid a “conflagration” in the face of an “umpteenth electoral hold-up”, he said at the UN in September.
With AFP
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