Gabon: plusieurs réseaux sociaux coupés après l'annonce de leur suspension par les autorités
Several social networks were shut down in Gabon on Wednesday, AFP journalists observed, a few hours after authorities announced their suspension "until further notice," justified by a risk of "conflict-generating excesses."
This measure comes as Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema faced the first wave of social protest of his term in January and February, with a teachers' strike that has continued in some places for more than a month.
In its statement Tuesday evening, the High Authority for Communication (HAC) mentioned, among other things, the "recurrent" dissemination of remarks "undermining human dignity, morals, the honor of citizens, social cohesion, the stability of the institutions of the Republic and national security".
The TikTok and Facebook platforms are no longer accessible, AFP journalists observed Wednesday morning.
On February 9, the President of Gabon visited two public high schools in the capital Libreville, anxious to accelerate the resumption of classes in the face of the strike that has been affecting the education system for more than a month.
The last teachers' strike in this Central African country of 2.5 million inhabitants took place in 2022, at the end of the Ali Bongo era, overthrown by the coup d'état of General Oligui Nguema in August 2023.
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