Gabon president calls for help after ouster in country’s first coup | News

The deposed president called on Gabonese citizens to ‘make noise’ after coup attempt.

Gabon’s deposed President Ali Bongo Ondimba has solicited help, hours after he was put under house arrest by members of his presidential guard in an ongoing coup attempt on Wednesday.

Bongo, who confirmed his arrest in a video circulating on social media and verified by Al Jazeera, called on calls on citizens to “make noise” after the coup attempt. He said he was in the presidential palace but his wife and children were elsewhere in the video.

The coup leaders said his family and his doctors were…