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Leading Gabon activists arrested over forum protest

Two leading Gabonese activists and some 40 others were arrested as they tried to hold a “Counter-Forum of Indignants” alongside the New York Forum Africa opening Friday in Libreville. Marc Ona, an award-winning environmental activist, and Gregory Ngbwa Mintsa, spokesman of Gabon’s Indignants’ Front.