Victory for ruling Bongo family who have ruled for five decades not credible as Gabon voters protest results

Gabon’s presidential election dispute is playing out against a background of overwhelming public distrust of the national election commission (CENAP) and strikingly negative assessments of the country’s election environment in advance of the August 2016 vote, a new analysis by Afrobarometer shows. Among 36 African countries surveyed in 2014/2015, Gabon ranks at or near the bottom…