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Teachers across England feel ‘they have no choice but to step in to help hungry children’, charity warns.

Data collected on behalf of president shows he was on course to win about 50% of the vote, as new leader announced by coup forces

The paramilitary force, accused of atrocities during four months of fighting, released its peace plan on Sunday.

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When leading military figures in Gabon announced on August 30 that they had placed President Ali Bongo Ondimba under house arrest in a bid to remove him from power after 14 years, thousands of Gabonese took to the streets to demonstrate their support for the military. Videos show demonstrators singing…

Rights advocates say framework needed due to Kenya’s domestic police record, grim history of intervention in Haiti.

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Seizure of power announced on television, cancelling election results that gave president third term in office

A coup attempt is underway in Gabon. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, a group of soldiers declared the “end to the regime” of President Ali Bongo, whose election for a third term as president had just been announced. He succeeded his father, Omar Bongo, in 2009 who had…

The ouster of Gabon’s President Ali Bongo early Wednesday came shortly after the country’s election commission announced the official results of the August 26 presidential election, handing the incumbent another disputed victory. But this time, it provided the spark for a military takeover to end more than half a century…

Nguema heads the Gabonese Presidency’s Republican Guard, the country’s most powerful security unit.