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Gabon prosecutor vows to arrest opposition leader

By AFP
Africa A supporter of the opposition's National Union UN party leader, Andre Mba Obame, holds projectiles during clashes.  By Xavier Bourgois AFPFile
AUG 20, 2012 LISTEN
A supporter of the opposition's National Union (UN) party leader, Andre Mba Obame, holds projectiles during clashes. By Xavier Bourgois (AFP/File)

LIBREVILLE (AFP) - The public prosecutor for the Gabonese capital Libreville vowed Monday that the country's main opposition leader, Andre Mba Obame, would be arrested after a violent protest last week.

"Justice is slow but sure. I assure you that Mr Mba Obame will be arrested," prosecutor Sidonie-Flore Ouwe told journalists. Supporters of Mba Obame, who claims he won a 2009 election and is Gabon's legitimate president, clashed with police Wednesday when they broke up an unauthorised protest.

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