“Why we struck,” Army officers in latest African country to fall under the boot of a junta give reasons Army officers have appeared on national television to say they have seized power in Gabon, after President Ali Bongo was re-elected to a third term in office in the Central African nation. According to the BBC, the officers said they were annulling the results of Saturday’s election which the opposition had denounced as “fraudulent”. Twelve soldiers reportedly appeared on television to announce that they were cancelling the results of…
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