President Ali Bongo Ondimba called on people to "make noise" to support him while army officers appeared on TV to say they had taken power and as locals celebrated the coup, Western powers decried it
LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) Mutinous soldiers claimed to have seized power in Gabon on Wednesday and put the president under house arrest, hours after he was declared the winner in an election extending his family's 55-year rule in the oil-.