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The Bongo family has ruled Gabon for more than 50 years. The presidential election wasn't expected to change that. The tiny oil-rich nation is grappling with high unemployment while the elite live luxuriously.

CNN — Military officials in Gabon appeared on national television on Wednesday to announce they were seizing power, prompting reports of celebrations and

Rebel officers seize power in Gabon following disputed elections; President Ali Bongo Ondimba placed under house arrest. Notably, Gabon is the sixth African nation to witness military coup in the past three years

A group of senior Gabonese military officers appeared on national television in the early hours of Wednesday and said they had taken power, minutes after the state election body announced President Ali Bongo had won a third term.

President Ali Bongo has been placed under house arrest by soldiers, days after a widely-disputed election declared him the winner.

The coup attempt came hours after President Ali Bongo Ondimba was declared the winner of an election.

Mutinous soldiers in Gabon said Wednesday they were seizing power to overturn the results of a presidential election, and claimed to have arrested the president, whose family has held power for 55 years.

A group of military officers appeared on national TV on Wednesday and announced they had seized power in Gabon, the Central African country where President Ali Bongo was deemed the winner in a recently contested election.

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A group of military officers making up the so-called Committee for the Transition and Restoration of the Institutions of Gabon seized power Wednesday in the African country, announcing the end to the current regime through a TV broadcast. The rebels also said they had dissolved all government institutions and annulled last Saturdays elections.