Coup In Yemen
Soldiers in Gabon seize power, republican guard chief new head of state
Mutinous soldiers in Gabon announced Wednesday that the head of the republican guard would be the country's new head of state, hours after saying they had placed the newly reelected president under house arrest. The mutinous soldiers went on Gabon's state television and said that Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema was president of the Committee for the Transition and Restauration of Institutions. Oligui is the leader of the republican guard, an elite military unit. He's also the cousin of President Ali Bongo Ondimba. Earlier Wednesday, soldiers had hoisted Oligui into the air in the capital and chanted his name.
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Yemen's Houthis release 77 pro-govt detainees including patients & elderly
Last week, the Yemeni government and the Houthis exchanged about 900 prisoners as part of a UN-brokered deal reached by the warring sides in March
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Yemen PM accuses Houthi separatists of coup after HQ takeover in Aden
The premier in a statement called on the Saudi-led coalition fighting Iran-backed Huthi rebels to intervene
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