Omar Bongo Ondimba (Le Grand Camarade)

Foreign principal: Office of President Omar Bongo...

Foreign principal: Pascaline Mferri Bongo (Omar Bongo's daughter)...

One UN source suggests French diplomats felt it unfair that tougher action should be taken against Compaoré and Eyadéma than against Gabon's President Omar Bongo and Rwanda's Vice-President Paul Kagame whose names were removed from Fowler's published report on the sanctions-busters though both were named in a leaked draft report circulating in UN Headquarters in New York...

Wobbly Presidents such as Biya Senegal's Abdou Diouf or Gabon's Omar Bongo should take note...

The initiative was announced on 10 November as the US Senate's Special Investigations Committee heard testimony about how Citibank's private-bank department had managed tens of millions of dollars for Gabon's President Omar Bongo and the sons of Nigeria's late military ruler General Sani Abacha (AC Vol 40 No 22)...

Gabon's President Omar Bongo currently suffering from embarrassing revelations about his private banking arrangements (AC Vol 40 No 23) also has an interest in oil to the south of Bioko; he hosts many Equatorian dissidents in Libreville (most of the rest are in Madrid and Berlin)...

President Omar Bongo's government also has arrears of CFA 100 bn...

Cases to be examined by the hearings will include those of Raul Salinas (brother of former Mexican President Carlos Salinas) Asif Ali Zardari (Benazir Bhutto's husband) Mohammed Abacha (son of the late Nigerian military ruler) and Omar Bongo...

One source suggests the recruitment may be financed through FIBA bank which is controlled by Gabonese President Omar Bongo and his Paris-based conseiller Samuel Dossou-Aworet...

He is certainly less likely to listen to Paris than for example Gabon's Omar Bongo Senegal's Abdou Diouf or Togo's Gnassingbé Eyadéma...

President Omar Bongo is furious claiming that Jaffré instigated a special investigation by French magistrate Eva Joly into payments made through Elf Gabon under former Elf Chairman Loïk le Floch-Prigent (AC Vol 39 No 4)...

He's cautious about his son-in-law Gabon's Omar Bongo and like most regional leaders has a low opinion of Congo-Kinshasa's Laurent-Désiré Kabila...