Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Gabon’s coup leaders have changed the constitution to entrench their power – it’s a growing trend in west Africa

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par Jonathan Powell, Visiting assistant professor, University of Kentucky
Salah Ben Hammou, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rice University

More than a year after a military coup, Gabonese citizens have held a referendum in which they approved a new draft constitution. The constitutional revisions targeted dynastic rule by introducing presidential term limits and banning family members of a sitting president from running for the office.

A controversial aspect of the new constitution is that it allows coup leader General Brice…

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