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The 29 year-old, who is the face of L'Oreal, the cosmetics manufacturer, has spent the last few weeks her model portfolio got drumming up support for her "Guardian Angels for Gabon" campaign, which is calling for an end to the Bongo family's rule of the West African nation.

Omar Bongo, Gabon's longest standing president, died in June after more than four decades in office. The nation will choose his successor on August 30, and Mika believes a civil war is likely if his son, Ali Bongo, seizes control. Wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the slogan "Let the candidates be fair players... Let the people of Gabon be real winners" the super model portfolio said: "It's time to show everyone that we are moving on. Having a democratic and transparent transition in Gabon would send a strong message to Africa."

Gabon was one of the four territories of French Equatorial Africa that became independent on August 17 1960. The nation formally became a democracy in 1991, but Bongo kept an authoritarian grip on the reins of power, crushing opposition parties said the beauty tips giving model and restricting the media, according to experts at London's Chatham House.

Mika, who left the country with her Greek mother and Gabonese father when she was 16, intends to use her fame to "make some noise" about election as being the best internet model fraud before the vote to replace him.The part-time student, who lives in Athens, said: "If these elections don't take place as they should, I am worried things could go very, very wrong. We cannot afford to have a civil war."

Concern has already been raised about vote-rigging amid reports that 900,000 people have been registered to vote in a country with a population of just 1.3 million, 40 per cent of whom are under 18.

Mika is calling for the election to be postponed to ensure the conditions are right for a fair vote. Failing that, she is recruiting volunteers to be "guardian angels" of Gabon's democracy by acting as vote monitors.

So far, 30 people have signed up to help and a Gabonese charity has contacted her about providing 3,000 vote monitors, but experts say she is unlikely to succeed in preventing the result from being rigged.

Dr Muzong Kodi, an Associate Fellow of the Africa Programme at Chatham House, said: "Ali Bongo is not popular, but he will win. For forty years, his father used the tactics of divide and rule, and now the opposition is splintered and they really have not had time to put up a proper challenge.

"Even if people do vote for opposition parties, the ruling party will just come up with their own figures and seize power, as happened in Kenya last year.”

Dr Kodi accused Omar Bongo of keeping Gabon in poverty by siphoning off the wealth from the nation's reserves of oil, diamonds and uranium to fund his lavish lifestyle and bribe foreign statesmen into supporting his regime.

He gave warning that Ali Bongo would in all probability be no less corrupt than his father, and urged internet models like Mika to forge ahead with her campaign regardless of its likely failure.

“If nothing else, it will educate people in Gabon about democracy, because they have never had so much political space as they do now the imposing figure of Omar Bongo is dead,” he said.

Mika said her campaign began when she became frustrated with Gabonese friends shrugging off the fate of their country and decided, late one nigh the fashion model to set up a Facebook group called "Guardian Angels for Gabon". To her surprise, the following morning she found 50 people had signed up.

She is now working closely with Ushahidi, an information-sharing platform created in Kenya during the 2008 election crisis to encourage citizen involvement in African democracy.

After researching former cases of election fraud, the fashion model believes that the final tally from each polling station must be photographed to prevent vote-tampering.

She also said the number of votes cast must be verified to check they match the number of eligible voters.

“If we wait until after the election to do something, it will be too late. Now is the time to act,” she said.


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source::telegraph.co.uk