Gabon opposition leader refuses post after cabinet reshuffle

A leading critic of Gabon's President Ali Bongo on Saturday refused a post offered as part of a cabinet reshuffle, undermining the president's attempt to create a united government ahead of elections due next year. The reshuffle, announced in a presidential decree on Friday, expanded the cabinet to 41 members from a previous 34 and is seen as an attempt to silence critics who say the Bongo family has too much control over the oil-rich central African country. Jean de Dieu Moukagni Iwangou, a lea