Gabon votes: Junta leader Nguema seeks electoral stamp of legitimacy

Gabon's junta leader and presidential candidate Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema gestures during his final campaign rally in Libreville on April 10, 2025. 

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Gabonese go to the polls on Saturday to elect a new president, the first since the August 2023 coup that deposed Ali Bongo Ondimba and ended more than half a century of rule by his clan.

The Bongo family ruled the central African country from 1967 with Omar Bongo Ondimba as president until his death in 2009, when his son Ali succeeded him.