LIBREVILLE: Gabon’s former oil minister has been jailed, a judicial source told AFP, days after another ex-minister was incarcerated in an unprecedented anti-corruption crackdown.

Etienne Dieudonne Ngoubou was on Thursday evening being held in a Libreville prison following a hearing by an investigating judge over embezzlement of public funds, a prosecutor said.

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