"Mr. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema has been elected with an absolute majority, receiving 575,222 votes, or 90.35 percent of the votes cast," says Gabon's Minister of Interior, Hermann Immongault, in announcing the provisional results of the presidential election. The junta chief ended more than five decades of corruption-plagued rule by the Bongo family in August 2023, assuming the role of transitional president, and promised to return the country to democratic rule. SOUNDBITES