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Article: Unrest as dictator's son declared winner in Gabon

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September 3, 2009
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Gabon's government declared late dictator Omar Bongo's son the winner of presidential elections Thursday, triggering the worst violence in years in the oil-rich nation.

In Gabon's steamy coastal city of Port Gentil, mobs protesting 50-year-old Ali Bongo's electoral victory burned France's consulate, attacked the offices of French oil giant Total and pillaged shops.

Over 41 years, Omar Bongo amassed a fortune from the country's oil wealth, owning 45 homes in France and more than a dozen luxury cars including a Bugatti worth $1.5 million. Meanwhile, a third of Gabon's citizens lived in wretched poverty, some digging through garbage dumps for food.

Opposition supporters, ...

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