French companies have wide-ranging economic interests in Gabon which are already being affected by Wednesday's military coup in the former French colony in west Africa.

French companies have wide-ranging economic interests in Gabon which are already being affected by Wednesday’s military coup in the former French colony in west Africa.

Some 80 French companies are registered in Gabon, said Etienne Giros, president of the French Council of Investors in Africa (CIAN), a body whose members account for four-fifths of French business activity on the continent.