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Gabon president Bongo says will seek second term this year

PORT GENTIL: Gabon President Ali Bongo said on Monday he would run for a second term in elections later this year, seeking to extend his party's near 50-year rule over the oil-producing central African state.

Bongo won a disputed election in 2009 after the death of his father Omar Bongo and is now nearing the end of his first seven-year mandate. There are no presidential term limits in Gabon.

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