Growing calls for Gabon’s transitional leader to stand in presidential poll

Eleven months after he came to power in a coup, there are growing calls for Gabon’s transitional President Brice Oligui Nguema to run for office.

He was sworn in in September last year, less than a month after ousting President Ali Bongo whose family had ruled the country for more than five decades.

Radio France International is reporting that on Saturday the deputy prime minister, Alexandre Barro Chambrier, said he would not be a…