{"id":32260,"date":"2026-04-17T09:26:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=32260"},"modified":"2026-04-17T09:26:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T07:26:20","slug":"gabons-opposition-leader-arrested","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/gabons-opposition-leader-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabon\u2019s opposition leader arrested\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"x_elementToProof\">Gabon&#8217;s opposition leader and former country&#8217;s Prime Minister, Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze has been arrested.<\/p>\n<p>His political party, Together For Gabon confirmed in a statement on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The statement released confirms that Bilie-By-Nze was taken into custody by the state security forces.<\/p>\n<p>He was the last Prime Minister under former President Ali Bongo.<\/p>\n<p>A military coup ousted Bongo in August of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Following the takeover, Bilie-By-Nze emerged as a central figure in the political opposition.<\/p>\n<p>He was the runner up in the last election, that voted junta leader and current President Brice Oligui Nguema.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":32262,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-32260","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze has been arrested","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32261,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/32260\/revisions\/32261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=32260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}