(FILES) Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba looks on as he attends a bilateral meeting with French President at Presidential Palace in Libreville, on March 1, 2023. Gabon's former president Ali Bongo, who was ousted in a putsch, is free to leave the country and travel abroad, the leader of the coup that toppled him said on September 6, 2023. "He has freedom of movement... and can travel abroad if he wishes," general Brice Oligui Nguema said in a statement read on state television. (Photo by LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP)