Gabon began swearing in on Saturday President-elect Brice Oligui Nguema who led a coup ending decades of Bongo family rule and swept polls last month with nearly ninety five percent of the vote.

 

The general and former junta leader, who toppled Ali Bongo in August 2023, ending fifty five years of dynastic rule by the Bongo family officially takes the presidential reins after leading nineteen months transition government.