Vol 62 No 22 | GABON Row over abuse probe 4th November 2021 The decision in mid–September by the United Nations to immediately repatriate Gabon's entire 450-strong peacekeeping unit from the Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Nations unies pour la stabilisation en...
Vol 62 No 13 | CHADGABONCONGO-KINSHASAUNITED NATIONS Gabon ires fellow Africans at the UN 22nd June 2021 A bitter dispute between African Union members over a non-permanent seat on the Security Council has broken into the open Furious argument has erupted over the normally placid elections by the UN General Assembly for one of the two non-permanent seats reserved for African countries on the UN...
Vol 61 No 15 | GABON Public relations premier 23rd July 2020 The promotion of Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda as Gabon's first woman Prime Minister is an astute piece of PR that may be welcomed in Paris and other European...
Vol 61 No 9 | GABON Bongo returns 30th April 2020 President Ali Bongo Ondimba is trying to reassert his authority after months of recuperation following a stroke in November 2018. The chief of staff at the Presidency, Brice...
Vol 60 No 25 | GABON The son also rises 19th December 2019 The man standing in for the President looked like he might be settling in, so the ruling clan swept him away and has appointed a dauphin With the installation of his son Noureddin Bongo-Valentin as the 'general coordinator of presidential affairs', recuperating stroke victim President Ali Bongo Ondimba – or those acting for him...
Vol 58 No 22 | GABON Bongo clubbed in Paris 3rd November 2017 The Paris Club of sovereign state creditors is threatening to derail President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba's government's delicate balancing act on its foreign debt.
Vol 58 No 14 | GABON IMF to rescue of CFA 7th July 2017 The International Monetary Fund's US$642 million bail-out of Gabon has sparked a flurry of emergency loans to countries in the Communauté économique et monétaire de l'Afrique centrale (CEMAC)...
Vol 58 No 10 | GABON What Bongo owes 12th May 2017 The International Monetary Fund has confirmed the dire state of the Gabonese economy in its Regional Economic Outlook report for sub-Saharan Africa, released on 9 May. Far worse...
Vol 58 No 9 | GABON Bongo's fund embrace 28th April 2017 Oil can no longer cover up the cracks in the economy. The IMF is being urged to demand an end to the elite's profligacy Extravagant spending, collapsing oil revenue and a ruling elite that views state funds as its own property have pushed President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba's government into the arms...
Vol 58 No 4 | GABON Professional fouls 17th February 2017 Ali Ben Bongo tried to make a festival of the Cup of Nations. But many were still angry about last August's disputed election Opponents of President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba hesitated over whether to use the Africa Cup of Nations (AfCON), the continent's football jamboree held every two years, to kick...