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Gabon’s transitional president, Brig Gen Brice Oligui Nguema, has hinted at the possible creation of a truth, justice and reconciliation commission to address atrocities in the country’s past.

The military junta “reserves the right to analyse the merits” of such a commission, he said.

Nguema’s remarks about a truth process come amid growing calls for justice for 2016’s post-election violence, when then-President Ali Bongo was controversially re-elected in disputed circumstances.

“The timeframe of a transition seems, to me, far too narrow to establish responsibility for each event,” said Gen Nguema. It is unclear if his statement is an indirect request for more time in power, or more time to get a commission up and running.

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