Gabon’s council of ministers says presidential elections would be held on April 12, 2025, marking an end to the military rule that began with a coup on August 30, 2023.

Minutes of a ministerial cabinet meeting confirmed the date.

Gabon’s interim President Brice Oligui Nguema seized power in a coup, the eight in West and central Africa between 2020 and 2023, which ended the long-standing rule of his predecessor Ali Bongo and his family over the oil-rich but impoverished nation.

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