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"All she has to do is stay there forever. Without leaving" says one resident of Libreville after the incarceration of the Franco-Gabonese wife of Gabon's ex-president Ali Bongo, Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Valentin. She had been under house arrest since a military coup at the end of August, for alleged misappropriation of public funds. "We're poor because of it... because of one family" adds another man, Bitegue Bi Ngong. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES