Officers have ousted president Ali Bongo and installed their own head of state
Senior officers in Gabon announced their coup before dawn on Wednesday, shortly after an election body declared that Mr Bongo had comfortably won a third term after Saturday’s vote.
The events follow coups in the past four years in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Chad and Niger, erasing democratic gains since the 1990s and raising concerns among foreign powers with regional strategic interests. The coups also showed the limited leverage of African powers once the military takes over.
Hundreds of people took to the streets of the capital of Libreville to celebrate Wednesday's coup in Gabon. The African Union, former colonial power France, the United States, Canada and Britain have all expressed concern about the coup. But they have not made direct calls for reinstating Mr Bongo.
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