Gabon- Post Presidential Election: Army Officers Announcing Coup

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UPDATE Gabon's government decreed an overnight curfew and suspension of internet access after polls closed in the country's presidential and legislative elections.

The move aims to prevent spreading "calls for violence" and "false information," the communications minister said.

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Long delays at polling places in Gabon reported as President Ali Bongo seeks to extend his family's 56-year hold on power

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Gabon's president Ali Bongo, whose family have ruled the country for 56 years, was named winner of a presidential election —
only for military officers to appear on television minutes later to announce that they had seized power https://reut.rs/44vyNtl

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A group of senior military officers in Gabon said they had seized power in the early hours of Wednesday, minutes after the Central African state's election body announced that President Ali Bongo had won a third term.

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EU HIGH REPRESENTATIVE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND SECURITY POLICY JOSEP BORRELL​

"If this is confirmed, it is another military coup which increases instability in the whole region.
"The whole area - starting with Central African Republic, then Mali, then Burkina Faso, now Niger, maybe Gabon - it's in a very difficult situation and certainly the ministers ... have to have a deep thought on what is going on there and how we can improve our policy with respect to these countries."

 

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