Libreviile – Gabon’s new strongman, General Brice Oligui Nguema, will be sworn in on Monday as president of a “transitional” power for an as yet indefinite period, but the opposition urges the putschists to recognize the “victory” of its presidential candidate instead. .
On Wednesday, officers of the Republican Guard (GR), the praetorian guard of the Bongo family in power for 55 years, proclaimed “the end of the regime”, less than an hour after the announcement of the re-election of the head of state in the presidential election on Saturday.
The latter, placed under house arrest by the military, was elected in 2009 on the death of his father Omar Bongo Ondimba, who had ruled Gabon for more than 41 years a country very rich in oil and other resources.