Mutinous soldiers claimed to have seized power in Gabon and put the president under house arrest, hours after he was declared the winner in an election extending his family’s 55-year rule in the oil-rich Central African nation. Crowds took to the streets of the capital and sang the national anthem to celebrate the coup attempt against a self-serving dynasty accused of getting rich on the country’s resource wealth while many of its citizens struggle to scrape by. For in-depth analysis and a deeper perspective on the unfolding coup, FRANCE 24's Nadia Massih is joined by Dr. Nathaniel Powell, Africa Analyst at Oxford Analytica.
