Who is Brice Oligui Nguema, Gabon’s interim leader? | News

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

Minutes after Gabon’s electoral commission announced on Wednesday that President Ali Bongo Ondimba had won a third term in office, senior military officers announced a coup and annulled the election results.

According to local media reports, Brice Clothaire Oligui Nguema, the commander-in-chief of the Gabonese Republican Guard – the country’s most powerful security unit – and a cousin to Bongo, is the ringleader of the attempted coup.

He was later named as the country’s…