CBON HARDENS HIS REGIME! CBON DURCI SON RÉGIME !
English version Trade unionists Marcel Libama and Simon Ndong Edzo have just been indicted in Libreville. These arrests are a sign of a tightening of the regime. Marcel Libama and Simon Ndong Edzo are historical leaders of social protest (especially within CONASYSED and SOS Education). Their imprisonment marks a break with the period of relative opening that followed the coup of August 2023. Government authorities justify these measures by accusations of disturbing public order and hindering freedom of work in the context of the teachers’ strike. But on closer look, it is a use of justice to muzzle social demands. We are witnessing an authoritarian drift that occurs as the social climate tightens more and more. With these arrests, CBON wants to send a message of absolute firmness; the regime seeks to decapitate the strike movement to force the return to class. He wants to neutralize the annoying counter-powers. Any dissident voice will be muzzled. The indictment of these historica...