Gabon coup: What’s the connection to Islam? ...Kuwait

On Wednesday, Gabonese military officers overthrew and arrested the country’s Muslim leader, Ali Bongo, cancelling the results of elections which gave him a third term in power. The Bongo family have ruled oil-rich Gabon for over 56 years. Ali Bongo became president in 2009 when his father Omar died. The family have long enjoyed the support of France, which condemned Wednesday’s coup. The formerly ruling Bongo family are Muslims in a country where only a small minority of the population follow Islam. Muslims are believed to form no more than 10 percent of the population, but the country is a member of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Eid al-Adha and

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