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This video grab shows soldiers holding General Brice Clothaire Oligui Nguema aloft in Libreville, Gabon today. Mutinous soldiers speaking on state television announced that they had seized power in and were overturning the results of a presidential election that was to extend the Bongo family's 55-year hold on power
SECURITY forces in Gabon said today they had seized power and “put an end” to the rule of the family that has held power for 55 years in the francophone country.
The military also announced that they had arrested the president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, whose re-election, after a campaign marred by violence, was announced just hours before.
Every vote held in Gabon since the country returned to multi-party democracy in 1990 has ended in violence.
NICHOLAS MWANGI highlights a historic turning point in Sahelian sovereignty, as Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger bolstered their regional security through a unified military force
As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE
ROGER McKENZIE reports on the west African country, under its new anti-imperialist government, taking up the case for compensation for colonial-era massacres