Gabon’s military says ex-president Ali Bongo is now ‘free’ to travel abroad

Bongo’s release follows after General Brice Oligui Nguema sworn in as Gabon’s new head of state.

Oligui is a cousin of Bongo, had served as a bodyguard to Bongo’s late father and also headed the country’s republican guard, an elite military unit.

Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque, reporting from Dakar, Senegal, said Bongo now has the option to leave the country if he decides to do so.After taking an oath of office in the presidential palace on Monday, Oligui said the military had seized control of the country without violence and would return power to the people by organising credible and free elections.

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