The leaders of the two wings of the split Forces pour la Défense de la Démocratie (FDD) Jean-Bosco Ndayikengurukiye and Pierre Nkurunziza both restated their commitment to the ceasefire process made earlier in Libreville at meetings hosted by Gabonese President Omar Bongo...
Vol 42 No 25 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Chirac's other old oil-rich ally Gabon's Omar Bongo has survived a series of Elf-related scandals in the French courts and the United States Senate...
Vol 42 No 19 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
President Omar Bongo of Gabon told Radio-France-Internationale that Kabila should share power for three or four years through a transitional government of national unity...
The fuss over how President El Hadj Omar Bongo came to deposit over US$180 million in three private Citibank accounts in New York won't go away...
Bemba got a more encouraging message from President Omar Bongo of Gabon asking him to support Patassé as he did...
Vol 42 No 10 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
Paris has also been strongly backing President Joseph Kabila's new government in Kinshasa; we hear the Elyseé also favours (and is winning support for) the replacement of Congo mediator Quett Masire with a Francophone perhaps Gabon's Omar Bongo...
Gabon's President Omar Bongo is trying to pull the Communauté Economique des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale into shape...
A special category is that of the oil exporting countries which have problems with Washington - Sudan the target of both US and United Nations sanctions and Gabon whose President Omar Bongo was damaged by a US Senate investigation into how more than US$180 million was paid into his private US accounts...
Brief: to support action of President Omar Bongo to fight AIDS pandemic...
The patron and financier of Congo-Brazzaville's reconciliation process and official mediator among the parties is the doyen of Francophone African heads of state President Omar Bongo of Gabon...
With the final million outstanding Monsieur wrote to Sigolet and to André Tarallo Elf's then Finance Director threatening that if he did not get his money he could release damaging documents - orders for arms and ammunition for Lissouba's government some of them signed JS (as in Jacques Sigolet); instructions to FIBA for payment; details of payments for President Omar Bongo's election campaign; and papers about a financial link to Sonangol Angola's state oil company with details of its account at the Crédit Commercial de France...