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Gabon’s deposed president, Ali Bongo Ondimba has called on his friends all over the world to make noise while under house arrest following a coup in the central African country
Gabon’s deposed president, Ali Bongo Ondimba has called on his friends all over the world to make noise while under house arrest following a coup in the central African country. This appeal was through a video from an anonymous source that showed a distressed Bongo making a plea for help.
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The deposed president said that he and his family members were arrested and put under arrest in different places. He said he did not know what was happening around him. In a short video clip, he called for help from all over the world to help him and his family.
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Military officers announced that they were overturning the government, in an apparent coup targeting President Ali Bongo Ondimba who has been in power for 14 years and whose re-election was just announced. His family has ruled the oil-rich African country for over 55 years. While the officers made their televised statement announcing the cancellation of the vote results, one of the officers said all the institutions of the republic had been dissolved. The address was read by an officer flanked by a group of a dozen army colonels, members of the elite Republican Guard, regular soldiers, and others.
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Bongo was first elected in 2009 following the death of his father who had ruled the country for 41 years. The announcement came in the middle of an overnight curfew and amid a nationwide internet shutdown, imposed by Bongo’s government as polling drew to a close on Saturday to prevent the spread of false news and possible violence. The Internet was restored on Wednesday morning after the TV address.
