The junta says it wants to keep good relations with its ‘neighbours and the world’.
DAKAR: Gabon reopened its borders today, an army spokesman said, three days after closing them during a military coup in which President Ali Bongo was ousted.
The coup — the eighth in West and Central Africa in three years — has raised concerns about a contagion of military takeovers across the region that have erased democratic progress made in the last two decades. The land, sea and air borders were opened because the junta was “concerned with preserving respect for the rule of law, good relations with our neighbours and all states of the world” and wanted to keep its “international commitments”, the army spokesman said on national television.
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