Paul Njie BBC News, Libreville AFP Gen Brice Oligui Nguema has been handed a seven-year mandate by an electorate relieved that the Bongo era is now past Gabon’s military leader Gen Brice Oligui Nguema – who in 2023 led a coup that ended a 60-year dynasty – has won Saturday’s presidential election with more than...
AFP Little more than 19 months after the bloodless coup that brought an end to more than five decades of rule by the Bongo family, the people of Gabon are about to head to the polls to choose a new head of state – bucking a trend that has seen military leaders elsewhere in Africa...
