Africa-Press – Angola. The President of the Republic, João Lourenço, left Luanda this Thursday (31) for the Republic of Congo, for political consultations with his counterpart Denis Sassou Nguesso on the situation in Gabon.
At the Luanda Military Air Base, the Angolan Head of State received farewell greetings from the Vice-President of the Republic, Esperança da Costa and members of the Executive.
In the early hours of Wednesday, a group of soldiers from the Gabonese army announced a coup d’état, on national television, after the release of the results of the general elections in that country.
The announcement was made in a press release read on the television channel “Gabon 24” by the military who decided to close the country’s borders.
Gabon is located on the Atlantic coast of central Africa and has land borders with Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon and Congo and sea borders with São Tomé and Príncipe.
Angola and Congo are also part of the Central Africa sub-region.
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