Mutinous soldiers in Gabon say they have seized power and detained president

Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba in his residence in Libreville on Wednesday (BTP advisers on behalf of the President’s Office/AP)

Mutinous soldiers claimed to have seized power in Gabon on Wednesday and put the president under house arrest, hours after he was declared the winner in an election extending his family’s 55-year rule in the oil-rich Central African country.

In a video apparently from detention in his residence, President Ali Bongo Ondimba called on people to “make noise” to support him.