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Gabon Coup
Silence by
UNSG Guterres
who Bans Press
Cameroon Bans
The Post in SW
y Matthew Russell
Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
UN GATE, Sept 15
– The Bongo family, which has
ruled French colony Gabon for
more than 50 years, was
deposed by a coup d'etat by
the military on August 30,
2023.
The day
before, Inner City Press asked
the UN and the US Mission to
the UN about the opposition's
complaints about Bongo's
staged re-election, with the
Internet cut. No
answer.
Inside the
UN, the spokesman for SG
Antonio Guterres, who has
often glad-handed with Bongo
as with Paul Biya of Cameroon
and others, hand picked three
softball questions for
Guterres' "press stake out"
bragging about his travels to
ASEAN and Cuba. He bans Inner
City Press.
Now Cameroonian
authorities have imposed an
indefinite ban against The
Post newspaper in the
Southwest Region, accusing the
outlet of “flagrant violation
of professional norms,"
The ban followed
the publication of a social
media post showing a copy of
the newspaper’s Monday front
page with a headline, “66% of
Cameroonians want a military
coup.” It was based on a
September 9 report in the
weekly The Continent and a
tweet about a survey of
citizens in 36 countries
between 2021 and 2022 by
Afrobarometer, a pan-African,
non-partisan research network
based in Ghana. The survey
found that while most Africans
disapprove of military rule,
“a slim majority (53%) are
willing to endorse military
intervention if elected
leaders abuse their power,”
including 66% of respondents
in Cameroon, who agreed that
“it was legitimate for the
armed forces to take control
of the government when elected
leaders abuse power for their
own ends.”
Inner City Press
on June 19 applied to UN
MALU's Melissa Fleming to
enter the UN and cover
September's UNGA. Even as of
August 30, no answer. A
totally corrupt organization.
Watch this site.
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