Five key facts about Gabon, where military officers announced that they had taken power following elections that were won by President Ali Bongo Ondimba.
A general view of the house and statue of Leon Mba, Gabon's first president, in Libreville [AFP]The small central African state has been ruled by the same family for more than 55 out of its 63 years since independence from France in 1960.
In October 2018, Bongo suffered a stroke that sidelined him for 10 months. The episode stoked claims he was unfit to rule and fuelled a minor attempted coup.Gabon is one of the richest countries in Africa in terms of per-capita GDP, thanks largely to oil revenues and the small population of 2.3 million.
One of the big success stories is conservation of critically endangered African forest elephants. Their global numbers have fallen 86 percent in 30 years but in Gabon they have doubled in a decade.A powerful psychoactive root found in Gabonese forests is used to make a drug that has been touted as a potential healer of heroin and cocaine addiction.
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