According to Angop, the vice-president of the Republic, Esperança Costa, and members of the executive paid farewell greetings to João Lourenço, who left the country from the Luanda Military Air Base.
It was at dawn on Wednesday that Gabon was the target of a coup d'état, carried out by a group of soldiers, after the official announcement of the electoral victory of Ali Bongo Ondimba.
According to the military, the President is under house arrest, among other detainees.