Gabon faces "sustained instability" if no presidential vote recount -Ping

By Gerauds Wilfied Obangome LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - If there is no recount of votes in Gabon's presidential election, the country will face "profound and sustained instability", the man who lost by less than 6,000 votes said on Friday. Jean Ping has applied to the Constitutional Court to authorise a recount in a province where President Ali Bongo won 95 percent of the votes on a 99.9 percent turnout. "I strongly fear that a new false step by the Constitutional Court would be the cause of profound