lassane: absolutely. feel like the international community is cought in the coup, whereby in principle they have to condemn the coup, but at the same time it is kind of like, ok, we understand what is going on here. that's almost as if the coup is coming to relieve people from a situation whereby ali bongo is to win the election in a very, very controversial manner. we do not know what could have come out of that election either in terms of postelection violence. but the coup stepped in to actually set things back to zero, basically. mohammed: stella, general nguema , who was named as a transitional leader, he was head of the presidential guard that had pledged to protect president bongo. he is also related to the deposed leader. the fact that such a close aide to president bongo has now been appointed to lead the transition, what message does that and part to those inside and outside the country? stella: thank you very much. there are a number of things we need to consider about that employment -- that a