Gabon on Thursday awaited the next move by its new military junta one day after it overthrew the government, named a new leader and detained President Bongo.
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The junta declared the takeover on national television before dawn on Wednesday and canceled election results that minutes earlier had handed Bongo a third term in power, and would have extended his family's 56 years in power.
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