The junta has scrapped the outcome of the country’s general elections after it was declared that President Ali Bongo Ondimba had won a third consecutive seven-year term.
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Military officers in Gabon claim they have overthrown the country’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba and scrapped the country’s general elections moments after its results were announced Wednesday, making it the latest coup to hit an ex-French colony.Key Facts
The announcement was made in a televised address after the country’s electoral authority announced that Bongo had won a third seven-year term as president after receiving 64.27% of the popular vote, AFP reported.
The opposition—made up of a coalition of several parties—decried the results as fraudulent, according to the BBC.
In their televised address, the military leaders of the coup said they were “putting an end to the current regime” and had dissolved “all the institutions of the republic” including the government, the national legislature and the country’s constitutional court.
