Five rebel soldiers who took over the radio station this morning have been arrested.

The generals, civil society members and opposition figures they listed as their supporters are being investigated.

Gabon’s government spokesman Guy-Bertrand Mapangou says everything is under control in Libreville.

The coup bid, condemned by the French Government and the African Union,  has been crushed.

It took place while President Ali Bongo is recovering in Morocco from a stroke suffered while visiting Saudi Arabia two months ago.

He took over from his father Omar Bongo who died in 2002.

There have been calls for an end to the 50-year-long Bongo dynasty in the oil-rich country of two million where a third of the population live in poverty. 

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