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Presidential elections took place in Gabon on August 27, 2016. On August 31, both the incumbent president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, and his main opponent, Jean Ping, announced that they won the elections.

The incumbent, Ali Bongo Ondimba, is the son of former despot Omar Bongo, who was the country's president from 1967 until his death in 2009.

In 1964, airborne french troops landed in Libreville, Gabon after an attempted coup against the regime back then.

He becomes the first non Gabonese national to hold the post since the bank was set up in 1972.

Alioune Tine, head of Amnesty International in West and Central Africa, explained what is at stake in Gabon

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The position fell vacant after senior officials, many of them Gabonese, were discredited in an embezzlement scandal that erupted in October 2009.

In Gabon, the priority for France is to transcend neo colonialism without losing its important links to the oil rich African nation.

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The report mentions other ruling dynasties in the region, including Gabon s Bongo clan, which is also accused of abusing public funds.

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