Gabon's government announced on Saturday it was imposing a night-time curfew and cutting internet access in the wake of the general elections in the central African state.
The overnight curfew will be imposed from Sunday, Communications Minister Rodrigue Mboumba Bissawou said on public television, to "counter the spread of calls for violence... and false information." Internet access was suspended until further notice, he added.
Voters headed to the polls on Saturday morning for presidential, legislative, and local elections in which President Ali Bongo Ondimba, scion of a family that has ruled the central African country for over half a century, was seeking a third term.
The recently united opposition, however, hoped to foil Bongo's bid for a third term and end his family's 55-year grip on power. Six of the main opposition parties backed main rival Albert Ondo Ossa in an effort to narrow the race to unseat Bongo.