Omar Bongo Ondimba (Le Grand Camarade)

Buyoya has good friends among the Francophones; he has recently met their doyen President Omar Bongo of Gabon and will be in Paris on 6 March at the invitation of President Jacques Chirac...

The reconciliation meeting is supposed to wind up before Misab' s mandate expires with the chairman's place at its final session filled by four heads of state designated as peacekeepers by their colleagues - Omar Bongo (Gabon) Idriss Déby (Chad) Blaise Compaoré (Burkina Faso) and Alpha Omar Konaré (Mali)...

Weakened by his failed attempts to stemtheCongo-Brazzaville crisis Gabon's Omar Bongo still relies on his uneasy relationship with Elf-Aquitaine...

If the ousted President Pascal Lissouba sues Elf in Paris for its alleged role in financing Sassou's militias the revelations may be as startling as those about the company's dealings with Gabon's President Omar Bongo which emerged from an airing before a French magistrate Eva Joly (AC Vol 38 No 15)...

Gabon's President Omar Bongo had invited to Libreville the heads of government of the EU and of the ACP states which are their partners in the Lomé convention...

Self-proclaimed President of Congo-Brazzaville Dénis Sassou Nguesso also wanted to clarify the alignment of his neighbours Omar Bongo and Laurent-Désiré Kabila...

He condemnedtheLibrevillesummit' sproposals for power-sharing as 'a diktat by the Frenchman Jacques Chirac friend of Sassou Nguesso intelligently supported by Omar Bongo who claims to be my relative'...

Lissouba was so confident of victory that he ignored the four successive peace accords set up by Gabon's President Omar Bongo and regularly broke agreed ceasefires...

This is commanded by Malian General and ex-President Amadou Toumani Touré and actively backed by President Omar Bongo (whose daughter Pascaline Bongo is a partner in a diamond-mining venture with Patassé and his son Patrick)...

If too many of the 71 heads of state invited pulled out it would be a disaster for President Omar Bongo believed to have already spent over US$3 million on a new conference centre and doing up hotels...

President Jacques Chirac had refused to see him he told Africa Confidential and advised him in a long and stormy telephone conversation to accept the proposal of the international mediators led by Gabon's President Omar Bongo that he share power with Sassou and serve as titular president for a transitional period...