Gabon’s ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba, who has been under house arrest since he was deposed last week, is free and can travel abroad for medical treatment, the country’s junta said as it appointed a new prime minister.

Raymond Ndong Sima, an economist, was named “prime minister of the transition”, according to a statement read on state television by Col. Ulrich Manfoumbi, spokesman for the transition committee.