Gabonese citizens are voting on a new constitution with many positive elements. Many experts say that if the referendum is ...

Omar Bongo, who was in power for 42 years. When Nguema seized power last year, he promised to restore civilian rule within two years. He has not said whether he will run for president at the end ...

The president's wife said this week in a post ... along with memories of the secrecy-shrouded death of Bongo's father Omar Bongo in 2009 after decades at the helm -- had sparked numerous rumours ...

celebrated the news of the president's removal, with several demonstrators saying they were glad the Bongo family was out of power. Bongo took office in 2009 after the death of his father, Omar ...

No mention was made of a stroke but the president had suffered "bleeding which required medical care", Mr Ngouoni said. Ali Bongo succeeded his father Omar Bongo as president in 2009, who governed ...

Current leader Ali Bongo succeeded his father Omar Bongo as president in 2009. He narrowly won re-election in 2016 in a poll marred by violence and accusations of fraud. The five soldiers took ...

It was January 1988 and Robert Bourgi was waiting to see the Gabonese president Omar Bongo, in an antechamber at his seaside palace in Libreville. He was there to collect funds for the approaching ...

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