Deposed Gabonese President's Wife Arrested for Money Laundering

Sylvia Bongo Valentin, the wife of Gabon's deposed President Ali Bongo Ondimba, has been charged with "money laundering" and other offenses, a month after her husband was overthrown in a coup. She has been under house arrest since August 30, and her eldest son has already been charged with corruption. The former first lady's house arrest order has been upheld, and she is being kept "incommunicado outside any legal framework," according to one of her lawyers. The opposition and military coup leaders have accused the Bongo government of corruption and bad governance.