Omar Bongo Ondimba (Le Grand Camarade)

Even if Taylor were tried in Sierra Leone and evidence implicated Compaoré Paris would still back the Burkinabè as it sees him as a successor in the France-Africa pantheon to Gabon's Omar Bongo who ran his own electoral landslide this week (see Pointer)...

The oil on which President Omar Bongo built his power is starting to run out but he carries on as usual after 38 years in the job (AC Vol 46 No 21)...

The government has been pressured not to hand him over with telephone calls from presidents AC understands who include Gabon's Omar Bongo Sudan's Omer el Beshir and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe...

Myboto is standing against President Omar Bongo in Gabon's presidential election in November...

Gabon's President Omar Bongo who has mediated in Central African crises and provided peacekeepers believed Patassé had squandered his help...

Now President Omar Bongo Ondimba 69 is Africa's longest-serving head of state...

Omar Bongo has run his country skilfully (and profitably for his family) through what used to be formally a single party and is now little changed by pluralism...

The Caliph's name is Omar Bongo...

It is election year again in Gabon and there is no doubt who will win: President Omar Bongo Ondimba who has presided over the now declining oil power since 1967...

Of Gabon's 35 registered political parties 29 belong to the presidential majority in what President Omar Bongo calls his 'convivial democracy'...

In Gabon President Omar Bongo Ondimba will win presidential elections due in December...

French interests were however represented by Gabonese President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba a close friend of French President Jacques Chirac...