Omar Bongo Ondimba (Le Grand Camarade)

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...

Further all the warring parties must agree that Masire's co-facilitator would be El Hadj Omar Bongo of Gabon...

On 30 January he met the Organisation of African Unity-appointed facilitator of the Congolese national dialogue Botswana's ex-President Ketumile Masire to propose that he be a member of a 'Council of African Presidents' probably alongside Omar Bongo of Gabon and Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the other Congo...

Rwanda is also trying to use Angolan allies such as President Denis Sassou-Nguesso Gabon's Omar Bongo and Mozambique's Joaquim Chissano as channels...

Omar Bongo has repeatedly threatened that any more changes to Zone arrangements will result in Gabon printing its own currency...

We hear that African leaders as diverse as Gabon's Omar Bongo and Uganda's Yoweri Museveni support it...

Compromise might also be encouraged by Gabon's President Omar Bongo who is married to Sassou's daughter Edith (a cheerleader for her father) and linked by kinship to Lissouba...

Separate armed opposition groups have combined to form the Coordination de Mouvements Politiques et Armées de l'Oppositio based in Libreville and tolerated by Gabon's President Omar Bongo (a famous friend of France and its oil companies)...

He is close to Presidents Omar Bongo of Gabon and Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville (who probably helped with his campaign finances)...

Early this year he asked his Gabonese counterpart Omar Bongo to try to persuade the French government to invite him on an official visit during which he would convince Paris that he would use his new six-year mandate to rebuild his country...