Last updated: 4 september, 2009 - 06:08 GMT

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Shells of burnt out cars litter Gabon's deserted streets.

The police and army are enforcing an overnight curfew following standoffs with rampaging opposition supporters.

Violence broke out as the Electoral Commission declared the late president Omar Bongo's son winner of Sunday's presidential elections with 42% of votes.

Protestors accusing France of conspiring to fix election results torched a consulate of the former colonial power and attacked a prison to set inmates free.

Network Africa's Akwasi Sarpong spoke to Linel Kwatsi in Gabon's capital, Libreville.

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