Omar Bongo Ondimba (Le Grand Camarade)

Ali Ben Bongo’s father Omar Bongo Ondimba was President of Gabon from 1967 until his death in August 2009 and many Gabonese saw the son – with his privileged overseas upbringing globetrotting and French wife – as an outsider...

President Obiang sought to win greater influence by constructing a parliament building for CEMAC in Malabo and he used the death of President Omar Bongo Ondimba in June 2009 to move against Gabonese control of BEAC...

Sarkozy moved his first Cooperation Minister the Christian socialist Jean-Marie Bockel in March 2008 after he had upset the late President Omar Bongo with remarks about the end of Françafrique (AC Vol 49 No 7)...

Before he died Gabon’s President Omar Bongo Ondimba had the pleasure of helping to push out Bockel then welcomed Joyandet and the secretary-general of the presidency Claude Guéant to Libreville...

The consortium the Great Sahara Petroleum Operating Company (GSPOC) consists of state-owned Sudapet (20%); Hi Tech (7%); All Africa Investment (5%) a joint venture between Libya Oil Holding Limited (ex-Tamoil) and Petrolin owned by Gabonese man-about-Africa and friend of the late President Omar Bongo Samuel Dossou-Aworet; Saudi Arabia’s Al Qahtani (33%); Yemen’s Ansan Wikfs (20%); and Jordan’s Dindir (15%)...

Omar Bongo Ondimba: The late Gabonese President used a US lobbyist to bring $18 mn...

When Gabon’s President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba was alive his ministers had nothing but praise for the nearly US$4 billion Bélinga iron ore mine and associated logistics projects described by the President as ‘the project of the century’...

' This continues late President Omar Bongo Ondimba's tack of telling the China National Machinery and Equipment Import & Export Corporation-led consortium to hurry up while at the same time pushing for a larger share of the profits...

Called on the carpet about the delays on 6 November by Mining Minister Julien Nkoghé Békalé COMIBEL's Director for External Relations Chang Xuehui explained that 'the project has been a little bit late because of the death of President Omar Bongo Ondimba and the holding of the presidential elections but the Chinese side has always wanted to move forward...

Gabon's new President Ali Bongo Ondimba visited on 21 October offering to continue the mediation with dissidents that his father President Omar Bongo Ondimba once pursued with mixed results...

The only visible sign of this threat to the regime during the transitional period which followed the death of President Omar Bongo Ondimba on 8 June was the arrest and disappearance of General Jean-Philippe Ntumpa Lebani...