In the early morning hours of Wednesday, military leaders in Gabon announced they seized power and put President Ali Bongo under house arrest. Bongo had just been declared the president in a flawed election. The World’s Marco Werman speaks to Daniel Eizenga, a research fellow at the African Center for Strategic Studies.
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