African leaders are looking at ways to contain a ‘contagion of autocracy’ spreading across the continent.
According to a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter, the African Union’s Peace and Security Council said it was holding a meeting on Thursday on the situation in Gabon following the military coup there this week.
The leaders are looking at how to respond to officers who removed President Ali Bongo and installed their own head of state in the latest of a wave of coups in West and Central Africa that regional powers have failed to reverse.
It said the meeting was being chaired by the AU commissioner for political affairs, Bankole Adeoye of Nigeria, and the current holder of the council’s rotating chair, Burundi’s Willy Nyamitwe.
The takeover ended the Bongo family’s almost six decades in power and created a new conundrum for a region that has struggled to deal with eight coups since 2020.
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