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[Schneemann]

Gabon voters to elect new president

CNN -- Voters in the western African nation of Gabon went to the polls Sunday to elect a successor for President Omar Bongo, who died in June after more than four decades in office. Africa's longest-serving ruler, Bongo, 73, suffered a cardiac arrest while being treated for intestinal cancer at a hospital in Barcelona, Spain.

His son, Ali Bongo, a candidate for the ruling Gabonese Democratic Party, appeared to be a leading contender.

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