French President Nicolas Sarkozy was jeered as he joined heads of state in the capital of Gabon, Libreville, for the funeral of President Omar Bongo.
A crowd booed the French leader as he visited the presidential palace to lay a wreath at Mr Bongo's coffin.
Oil-rich Gabon kept close ties to Paris under Mr Bongo, but he was the subject of a French corruption inquiry in May.
After more than four decades in office, he died last week in a Spanish clinic following a long illness. More...
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