Gabon president sacks deputy, forestry minister

Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba attends a session of the One Planet Summit at La Seine Musicale venue on l'ile Seguin in Boulogne-Billancourt, west of Paris.LIBREVILLE - Gabon's leader Ali Bongo on Tuesday announced the dismissal of his vice president and the minister of forests, in a move that comes amid a scandal over the smuggling of precious timber.

There have been intensifying calls for Mapangou to resign in recent days in the press and from civil society groups in the aftermath of the theft of hundreds of seized containers of kevazingo, a rare wood considered sacred. Several suspects were arrested, but 353 of the containers - which had been confiscated - mysteriously disappeared.

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