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2019-01-08 Africa Subsaharan
Gabon coup: Mutiny leader arrested, two soldiers killed
[AFRICANEWS] The Gabon presidency has reported the death of two soldiers involved in the attempted coup of Monday morning.

The fifth officer and leader of the action has also been enjugged
Please don't kill me!
, the presidency confirmed. An earlier report said four of the five plotters had been arrested.

It is not known the circumstances around which the two died. The leader of the mutiny was found hiding in a house close to the state broadcaster.

He managed to elude security forces deployed to arrest them after making an announcement on state radio earlier on.
Government assures situation under control, four soldiers picked

The Gabonese government spokesperson confirmed to Rooters and French channel, RFI, that the attempted coup had been brought under control.

"The government is in place, the institutions are in place," Guy-Bertrand Mapangou told La Belle France24.
Gabon coup soldiers arrested, internet off but Libreville calm

Apparently, there were only five soldiers involved in the attempt, out of which government confirmed that four had been arrested whiles one is on the run.
African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
condemns coup attempt

Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, said in a tweet that the attempted coup in Gabon was strongly condemnable. He added that the AU will not countenance an unconstitutional change of government.
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