{"id":9318,"date":"2023-09-28T14:02:16","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T14:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=9318"},"modified":"2023-09-28T14:02:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T14:02:16","slug":"gabons-new-prime-minister-outlines-plans-for-national-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/9318\/gabons-new-prime-minister-outlines-plans-for-national-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabon’s new prime minister outlines plans for national dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gabon’s military-installed prime minister, Raymond Ndong Sima<\/a>, on Wednesday outlined plans for a “national dialogue” to be organised next year which he said would pave the way for drawing up a new constitution.<\/p>\n

Speaking at a press conference almost a month after a coup d\u2019etat which ousted President Ali Bongo, he said an appeal for contributions towards the dialogue would go out from next week.<\/p>\n

“Everyone has something to say. Men, women, old people, young people, people in housing estates, people in towns, in villages, everyone has an opinion and that’s normal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Ndong Sima said he aims to put forward a summary of these contributions by the end of January, which will provide the working basis for the national dialogue to take place hopefully between April and June.<\/p>\n

“Why do we have a limited time to do this? Because we can’t go on forever in a transition situation with a military command,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a civil society. We belong to institutional bodies and we must respect the clauses of these bodies.”<\/p>\n

Gabon\u2019s coup leader, and now transitional president, General Brice Oligui Nguema<\/a>, has promised to hand back the country to civilian rule with elections after a transitional period.<\/p>\n

No timeframe has been given however.<\/p>\n

The coup brought an end to close to 60 years of control of the oil-rich Central African country by the Bongo family.<\/p>\n

The family\u2019s dynastic rule created widespread discontent, with critics saying they did little to share Gabon\u2019s wealth with its citizens.<\/p>\n

Ndong Sima, a French-educated economist and outspoken critic of Ali Bongo, had served as his prime minister from 2012 to 2014 before resigning.<\/p>\n

He ran against him for president in the 2016 elections and again this year as part of an opposition coalition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gabon’s military-installed prime minister, Raymond Ndong Sima, on Wednesday outlined plans for a “national dialogue” to be organised next year which he said would pave the way for drawing up a new constitution. Speaking at a press conference almost a month after a coup d\u2019etat which ousted President Ali Bongo, he said an appeal for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9067,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"Africa News","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"0","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"0","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"0","show_popup_post":"0","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,33],"tags":[1472,181,1516],"class_list":["post-9318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-central-africa","category-politics","tag-brice-oligui-nguema","tag-gabon","tag-raymond-ndong-sima"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}