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Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba is under house arrest, and one of his sons has been arrested for "treason," military officers said Wednesday, hours after announcing they had overthrown the government.
"President Ali Bongo is under house arrest, surrounded by his family and doctors," they said in a statement read out on state TV.
Later, the Gabonese president appeared in a video calling for his "friends" to "make noise" after military officers staged a coup.
"I'm sending a message to all friends that we have all over the world to tell them to make noise for (...) the people here who arrested me and my family," he said, looking worried, in the clip posted on social media.
The African Union's Peace and Security Council Chair, Willy Nyamitwe, said on Wednesday that he had urgently assembled a meeting with Burundi, Senegal and Cameroon to analyze the situation in Gabon.
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