Royal Air Maroc officials are expected to hold today an an emergency meeting on flights connecting Mohammed V International Airport and Libreville Airport, the capital of Gabon, sources told Hespress AR.
The meeting comes after a military coup shook Gabon this morning, where members of the army and police said they had deposed President Ali Bongo and announced the dissolution of “all institutions of the Republic.”
A source at Hespress said that a flight scheduled for this evening by Royal Air Maroc from Casablanca to Libreville may be cancelled, as the coup leaders have closed the land borders and may also close the airspace.
The source also said that four flights organized weekly between Casablanca and Libreville will be temporarily suspended pending the stability of the country after the coup.
A statement read by military personnel on Gabon 24 television from the presidential headquarters said that “all institutions, the government, the Senate, the National Assembly, and the Constitutional Court have been dissolved.”
“The borders are closed until further notice,” said one of the soldiers, speaking on behalf of a “Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions”.
Soldiers sought to claim power after Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba, who has been in power for 14 years, was re-elected for a third term in Saturday’s election with 64.27 percent of votes cast.
Bongo beat his main rival Albert Ondo Ossa, who won 30.77 percent of the vote, while 12 other candidates divided those remaining.
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