Gabon Opposition Leader Challenges Poll Results

Gabonese opposition leader Jean Ping filed his challenge to the results of the August 27 presidential poll at the urging of the international community, according to his representative on Gabon’s electoral commission.   The leaders who urged Ping to file a challenge with the Gabonese courts included the U.N. secretary-general, said Paul Marie Gondjout.   “Mr. Ban Ki-moon asked Mr. Ping to go to the Constitutional Court. Mr. Jean-Marc Ayrault, the French minister of foreign...

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