Gabon junta banks on new constitution to regularise rise to power
Gabonese voters approved a new constitution by a landslide 91.8 percent, the interior minister said on Sunday, after a referendum that the ruling junta promised would be a stepping stone to democratic rule. Speaking on state television, Minister Hermann Immongault said turnout was an estimated at 53.5 percent. General Brice Oligui Nguema, the interim president,…