Libreville — Security forces in Gabon violently charged at demonstrators gathering on Saturday in Libreville in the lead-up to presidential elections and beat an AFP cameraman covering the protest, a colleague said.

Defying a heavy police presence, hundreds of protesters took to the streets in opposition to President Ali Bongo Ondimba’s candidacy for re-election on August 26, the AFP correspondent said.Some 15 opposition leaders also attended the protest, forming a human chain at the front of the crowd. Among them was presidential candidate Guy Nzouba Ndama, the former parliamentary speaker.

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