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People wait in line for the opening of a polling office during the presidential election in Libreville, Gabon, on Aug. 26, 2023.

REUTERS/Gerauds Wilfried Obangome

Gabon's mystery election

We’d love to tell you all about the election results in Gabon – except we can’t, because the government’s not saying who won.

Barely two hours after opposition leader Albert Ondo Ossa called on President Ali Bongo to step down, it was announced that the internet had been cut and a nightly curfew imposed in the central African country, allegedly to “counter the spread of calls for violence ... and false information.”

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