The former president and family of Gabon come to Angola

Former Gabon President Ali Bong, who was dropped in the 2023 coup has left the country and is now in Angola, the authorities have announced there.

Angolan’s presidency added In a statement posted on social media Bong’s family was released from detention and was with him in Luanda.

The wife and son of Bong, Sylvia and Nuredin, confronted with accusations of corruption and went to jail in 2023.

They have not yet publicly commented on the allegations, but lawyer Mrs. Bong told about her detention both arbitrary and illegally.

Family release takes place after Angolan Joao Lurenso’s President, who currently heads the African Union, visited Libreville and held talks with his Gabon Bris Oliguem Nguem’s colleague, a former general who led a coup before being before being Lon by the Last month’s presidential election.

Gaboneseev Prosecutor Eddie Minang says the release of Mrs. Bong and her son is simply temporary, thanks to poor health and that court cases against them will continue.

In the photos released by the President of Angola, Bong can be found after coming to the airport and a woman who seems to be his wife.

Ali Bong, whose father Omar Bong ruled Gabon for more than four decades, headed the country 14 years before the 2023 coup.

After his disruption, he was placed under house arrest, where he was reportedly remained, although Gabonez’s authorities say he could move freely as he wanted.

According to the mining, his wife and son were detained in prison and then released earlier this week after the request of the Bong family.

Responding to their release, opposition leader Allen Claude Bili-nze said that the current President Oliguy Nguema bowed to international requirements after everyone understood the abuse of power. “

Sylvia and Nearddin Bong are accused of stealing state funds, with Mrs. Bong specially faced allegations of forgery, money laundering and falsification of documents.

Bong expressed, condemning what he called “violence and torture”, whom his wife and son face, although the authorities denied a couple of cruel treatment.

For 14 years, the Bong Family Authorities have accused the accumulation of wealth at the expense of the country – the allegations they denied.

Despite the fact that Gabon was rich in oil, a third of its population lives below the poverty, the UN reports.

As a sign of warming the relationship between Gabon and his continental colleagues, the African Union has decorated the country to its block at the end of last month after its membership was dismissed from the coup.

In his statement, the chairman of the body Mahmoud Ali Yusuzuf said he hoped that “Gabon’s example would inspire similar ways to constitutional restoration throughout the continent.”

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