26 minute clip of the coup in Gabon to overthrow a dynastic rule of 56 years by the Bongo family backed by France and foreign forces. The rule has increasingly becoming more repressive and dictatorial, controlling all the resources through their cronies and nepotism. The ruling family has been accused of pilfering and enriching themselves using the nation's wealth. President Ali Bongo, who succeeded his father, has just claimed a third election victory but was accused of election fraud, election was not transparent. You can see in the appeal made by the ousted President to foreign leaders to help free him, he is now under house arrest, instead of appealing to his people to fight the coup leaders. The fact that the people are also supporting the coup to take back their country that is basically a crony of France and the West speak for itself. He has lost the support of his people. The people are fed up with the family.
Also, listen to the western biased view that military rule must be bad and civilian rule like the West is the way to go. Are military rule necessary be bad and western so called democratic rule be good? Is the choice of a system preferred to the choice of a ruler, kingship, totalitarian rule? Is democratic system better than say communist or socialist system?
Many of the African states are fake democracies, ex French colonies still ruled indirectly by the French or Americans with French and American bases and soldiers pretending to be fighting Muslim militants, but really to control these fake democracies. This is the reason why Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Chad, Niger etc etc are having military coups to rid their countries from the vestiges of American and French colonial forces, to be genuinely free and independent...not American or foreign crony states.