A 74-year-old insurgent candidate for president is challenging the 49-year rule of a single family in Gabon in Saturday's election. Jean Ping is promising improvements to infrastructure and health and a reform of the judiciary, and accuses Pres. Ali Bongo of wanting to establish a dictatorship. Ali Bongo has been in office since 2009 when he won an election after the death of his father, Omar Bongo Ondimba, an autocrat who ruled the west African country for 42 years.
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