The president went to Ollombo International Airport, in the city of Oyo, to welcome the Angolan head of State at the foot of the stairs of the plane, according to the Congolese Presidency’s account on the social network X, formerly Twitter.

“This visit of friendship and work gives us the opportunity to exchange on bilateral, regional and international issues,” Sassou-N’Guesso wrote on his personal profile on the same network.

Lourenço is the acting president of the International Conference for the Great Lakes Region (CIRGL), to which Congo, a country that shares borders with Gabon, belongs.

The day before, Gabonese military forces announced the annulment of the presidential elections of August 26th in which Ali Bongo Ondimba won for the third time.

In a message broadcast on National Television, the military confirmed the seizure of power by the Defense and Security Forces, gathered in a so-called Committee for the Transition and the Restoration of Institutions.

They also informed the annulment of the general elections -which had already generated controversy with opposition sectors- and the house arrest of the President accompanied by his family and doctors.

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