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Sylvia Bongo, wife of Gabon’s deposed president jailed
Sylvia Bongo Ondimba, the wife of Gabon’s ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba, who had been under house arrest following the recent coup in late August, has now been incarcerated.
Her legal counsel, Francois Zimeray, has decried the incarceration as an “arbitrary and illegal procedure.”
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