Junta chief Brice Oligui Nguema won Gabon’s presidential election with over 90 percent of the vote, according to provisional results released Sunday. Turnout was 70.4 percent, and no other candidate received more than 3 percent, in polls marking the first vote since a 2023 coup overthrew the Bongo dynasty.
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by Thalif Deen (united nations) Thursday, June 01, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jun 01 (IPS) – The US has some of the strictest laws against smoking in public, including a 1997 executive order which bans smoking in all government federal buildings. But still, the tobacco industry and its allies…
A caravan found packed with explosives in outer Sydney earlier this year was part of a “fabricated terrorism plot” concocted by criminals, Australian police have said. The caravan, which was found in north-western Sydney on 19 January, contained enough explosives to produce a 40m-wide blast, along with a note displaying…
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Nigeria has denied accusations from Niger’s military leader, Brig Gen Abdourahmane Tchiani, of colluding with France to destabilise the junta-led nation. In a Christmas Day interview, Gen Tchiani accused France of allying with militant groups in the Lake Chad region to undermine Niger’s security, allegedly with Nigeria’s knowledge. “Nigerian authorities…
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