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Eight days after the coup d'État in Gabon, the country's new military leaders say deposed President can now leave the country. Ali Bongo has been under house arrest since August 30th. He suffered a serious stroke in 2018 and has difficulty moving his right leg. FRANCE 24's Clemence Valler and Natalia Odisharia tell us more.
Gabon’s president called on his citizens to “make noise” after a coup attempt in the Central African country, saying he was speaking from detention in his residence. President Ali Bongo Ondimba appeared in a video sat in a chair with a book shelf behind him. It was his first public appearance since soldiers took to state TV.
Some people in Gabon's capital Libreville took to the streets Wednesday to celebrate following what appeared to be an attempted coup by military officers who said they had placed the country's president Ali Bongo Ondimba under house arrest, reports France 24's correspondent Indra Ayuk.
Following the military takeover in Gabon, the junta announced they have detained President Ali Bongo and placed him and his family under house arrest. Bongo's son and close adviser Noureddin Bongo Valentin, his chief of staff Ian Ghislain Ngoulou as well as his deputy, two other presidential advisers and the two top officials in the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) "have been arrested," a military leader said.
Mutinous soldiers claimed to have seized power in Gabon on Wednesday and put the president under house arrest, hours after he was declared the winner in an election extending his family’s 55-year rule in the oil-rich Central African nation. In a video apparently from detention in his residence, President Ali Bongo Ondimba called on people to “make noise” to support him. But crowds instead took to the streets of the capital and sang the national anthem to celebrate the coup attempt against a dynasty accused of getting rich on the country’s resource wealth while many of its citizens struggle to scrape by. FRANCE 24's Chief Foreign Editor Rob Parsons tells us more.
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