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- Military officers of Central African nation Gabon announced that they have taken power "on behalf of the Gabonese people".
- President Ali Bongo currently remains under house arrest.
- He had won a third term in recent election.
- The nation has little more than 2 million people.
- France occupied Gabon in 1885.
- In 1910, Gabon became one of the four territories of French Equatorial Africa.
- On 15 July 1960, Gabon gained independence from France.
- It is located on the Atlantic Ocean, and borders Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, and the Republic of Congo.
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