The United States is resuming usual business with junta-led Gabon, 13 months after a bloodless coup toppled President Ali Bongo Ondimba and his clan dynasty that had been in power for more than half a century.
But Gabon, condemned like the other ‘coup boys’ including Niger, Mali and Burkina Faso, quickly reset its relations with the West, including Washington, even as the African Union maintained its traditional whip of suspending illegal changers of government.