It did not give a date. Senior officers in Gabon announced their coup before dawn on Wednesday, shortly after an election body declared that Bongo had comfortably won a third term in Saturday's vote....
The coups also showed the limited leverage of African powers once the military takes over. ECOWAS threatened military intervention in Niger after a coup there on July 26 and imposed sanctions, but the junta has not backed down....
He took over in 2009 on the death of his father Omar, who had ru
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