Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored his third goal in as many games as co-hosts Gabon confirmed top spot in Group C with a 1-0 win over Tunisia in the Africa Nations Cup in Libreville last night.

JOHN MENSAH scored, then saw red as 10-man Ghana held on to beat Botswana in their African Nations Cup Group D opener.

The head of Gabon’s senate has been sworn in as the Central African nation’s interim president, the first time in more than four decades that power has been held by anyone other than the late leader Omar Bongo.