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People pose with soldiers as they celebrate in support of the putschists in a street of Libreville, Gabon.
Africa

Another day, another coup in Africa

Just hours after being declared the winner of a fraught presidential election that the opposition says was plagued by irregularities, Ali Bongo Ondimba, the president of the central African state of Gabon, was ousted in a military coup – the seventh on the African continent in just two years.

​People wait in line for the opening of a polling office during the presidential election in Libreville, Gabon, on Aug. 26, 2023.
Africa

Gabon's mystery election

We’d love to tell you all about the election results in Gabon – except we can’t, because the government’s not saying who won.