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Riots in Gabon as Bongo poll win disputed
Thu Sep 3, 2009 10:27am EDT
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LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Soldiers clashed with opposition supporters in the streets of Gabon's capital on Thursday after Ali Ben Bongo, son of long-time ruler Omar Bongo, was declared the winner of a disputed presidential election.
A rival candidate was wounded in the unrest in Libreville, while French media reported rioting in Port Gentil city in the central African nation's oil zone. French oil giant Total reported no damage to its premises there.
"This is just what happens in Africa," Angel Nzeg, a female opposition supporter in Libreville said of the chaos surrounding the poll announcement. "What do you want us to do?" she said.
Ex-defense minister Ben Bongo, 50, scored 41.73 percent of the vote, the interior ministry announced, ahead of ex-interior minister Andre Mba Obame and Pierre Mamboundou, both of whom disputed results that gave them around 25 percent each.
"We condemn these results. It is a constitutional coup d'etat," said Richard Mombo, secretary general of veteran opposition figure Mamboundou's Union of Gabonese People (UPG) party.
Mombo told Reuters by telephone that Mamboundou had been "seriously injured" in clashes with security forces in the capital earlier but gave no details of his condition.
A Reuters witness touring the streets shortly after security forces broke up the demonstrations said streets of downtown Libreville were virtually empty.
Ben Bongo's rivals accuse him of rigging the result to ensure a dynastic transfer of power from his father, who brought stability during nearly 42 years of rule but faced accusations he used petrodollars to enrich family and friends.
"I want to be president of all the Gabonese," Ben Bongo declared on TeleAfrica, the Bongo family's television station.
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With bloodstains on his head, Libreville local Pascal Minko said he was knocked to the ground by something that hit him as riot police used tear gas launchers.
"I really didn't expect anything like that at all," he said.
Ben Bongo said before the results that authorities would deal firmly with any street disorder.
In Port Gentil, an unnamed resident was quoted by French state radio France Info as saying prisoners freed from a local jail were roaming the streets and had set fire to a petrol station.
"There are thousands of people. There is the opposition but it is not just the opposition. Everyone is taking advantage of this, not just the prisoners," it quoted him as saying. Continued...
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