“The EU rejects any seizure of power by force in Gabon and calls on all those involved to show restraint”, declared the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borell, on Thursday 31 August, the day after the military coup that saw General Brice Oligui Nguema, the author of the putsch, appointed transitional president and which overthrew Ali Bongo, who had been in power since 2009, as soon as the results of the elections were known, with him...