Meet Gabon’s ‘coup leader’, Brice Nguema

The alleged coup leader in Gabon, Brice Oligui Nguema, heads the Gabonese Presidency’s Republican Guard, the country’s most powerful security unit. Minutes after Gabon’s electoral commission announced on Wednesday that President Ali Bongo Ondimba had won a third term in office, senior military officers announced a coup and annulled the election results. According to local