Responding to the reported coup in Gabon, Josie Stewart, Director of Transparency International Defence and Security, said:
This is the eighth coup in Central and West Africa in the last three years.
Corruption in the security sector has long fuelled insecurity across the region.
It has been inadequately addressed through security sector reform.
The consequences for the social contract and governance are severe.
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