Information Minister Denies Reports On Coup Attempt

The Government of Congo has quashed rumours of a coup attempt against President Denis Nguesso, the country’s minister of information, Thierry Moungalla said on Sunday.

Moungalla, spoke via a tweet on the X platform, formerly Tweeter on Sunday.

Earlier, some social media accounts and news reports claimed a coup attempt was underway in the country as the president was away attending the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York, United States.

While the reports said the identities of the coup plotters were unknown, they suggested that the commander of the presidential guard had a role to play in the attempted takeover.

Moungalla, however, described the reports as fake.

According to him, fanciful information suggests serious events that are underway at #Brazzaville.

“The Government denies this fake news,” the minister tweeted. (NAN)

Besides the dismissal of the report of a coup in Congo by Thierry Moungalla, Nigeria’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN), Amb. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, has said that military coups recently witnessed in some Africa countries are a setback for prosperity in the continent.

Muhammad-Bande told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in New York that anything contrary to democracy as entrenched in the regional and continental bodies’ constitutions would amount to setback for prosperity in Africa.

The regional union is the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) while the continental union is Africa Union (AU).

Muhammad-Bande spoke against the backdrop of succession of military coups unfolding across Africa with the recent being in Gabon.

The Gabon coup came on the heels of July coup in Niger, Burkina Faso in 2022, and Chad, Guinea, Sudan and Mali in the years prior to that.

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