Gabonese junta leader General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema appointed Alexandre Barro Chambrier, aka ABC, one of the main opposition figures in the last years of ousted president Ali Bongo's reign, to his government on 17 January.
ABC was, like many Gabonese politicians, taken by surprise by the military coup last August and initially refused to join the Comité pour la Transition et la Restauration des Institutions (CTRI), as the junta calls itself. He preferred to wait for elections due to be held
