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Gabon’s new military leader sought to justify the military takeover of the OPEC member state as the deposed president appealed for help from his supporters.

Says observers are crucial in supervising an election.

Gabon’s late ruler Omar Bongo converted to Islam in 1973 at the urging of Libyan dictator Gaddafi, making the once powerful Bongo family Muslims in a country where only a small minority of the population follow Islam.

People seen celebrating in Libreville amid resentment against upstaged 55-year-long dynastic rule

Gabon on Thursday awaited the next move by its new military junta one day after it overthrew the government, named a new leader and detained long-standing President Ali Bongo in his residence. The junta declared the takeover on national television before dawn on Wednesday and cancelled election results that minutes earlier had handed Bongo a third term in power, and would have extended his family's 56 years in power. Gabon, an OPEC member, is a major oil and manganese producer whose ouste...

August 31, 2023, at 01:20 GMTUpdated 25 minutes agophoto caption, And his troops carried General Nguema victoriously through the streets of the capital,

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Gabon’s junta named General Brice Oligui Nguema as transition leader, soldiers said on national television on Wednesday. The announcement ca