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President Ali Bongo Ondimba is a Nigerian of the ethnic Igbo stock, adopted by a former leader of the country during the Biafran war.

The military juntas said they represented the armed forces, and declared on television that the election results were cancelled, borders closed and state institutions dissolved, after a tense vote that was set to extend the Bongo family's more than half century in power.

Two French journalists have been charged with blackmail and extortion after allegedly promising not to publish a book about Morocco's King Mohammed VI in exchange for large sums of money.

Two French journalists were given a one-year suspended prison sentence and a 10,000 euro fine in Paris on Tuesday, found guilty of trying to blackmail the King of Morocco in 2015 by demanding money in return for the non-publication of a book.

Two French journalists went on trial Monday in France on charges of trying to blackmail the king of Morocco over allegedly demanding money to hush purportedly

Morocco accuses one of the journalista of offering to halt the book’s publication in exchange for €3 million.

French writers go on trial in Moroccan king blackmail case

Two French journalists went on trial Monday in France on charges of trying to blackmail the king of Morocco over allegedly demanding money to hush purportedly damaging revelations about him.

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French journalists charged with bid to blackmail Morocco king