Dar es Salaam, April 15 -- GABON: Gabons interim leader, General Brice Oligui Nguema, has been elected president with 90.35% of the vote, according to the provisional results announced by Interior Minister Hermann Immongault on Sunday.

Saturdays election is the first since Nguema led a military coup in August 2023 to overthrow his cousin, former President Ali Bongo, shortly after he was declared the winner of a disputed presidential election.

Bongo, who was accused of corruption and irresponsible governance, had been in power for 14 years after succeeding his father, Omar Bongo Ondimba, who ruled for more than four decades before his death in 2009.

“Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema is elected by absolute majority with 575,222 votes,&...