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Omar Bongo Ondimba (Le Grand Camarade)

Date of Birth: 30 December 1935
Place of Birth: Lewai
Died: 8 June 2009


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Teodorin’s week

An investigating magistrate was appointed and a judicial inquiry opened into how assets had been acquired by three foreign heads of state and their families the others being Congo-Brazzaville’s Denis Sassou Nguesso and Gabon’s late Omar Bongo...


Don't call us

It was a far cry from 2007 when Karim attended Bourgi’s investiture in France’s Légion d’Honneur as did the children of other presidents he had long counselled such as Omar Bongo Ondimba and Denis Sassou-Nguesso...


Beau Blaise loses it

After the death of Gabon’s President Omar Bongo Ondimba in 2009 Compaoré took over as point man for Francophone Africa at least as far as the Paris government is concerned...


Obame: no, he can’t

Vague attempts at ‘dialogue’ and ‘reconciliation’ were a principal tool of Ali Ben’s father the late President Omar Bongo Ondimba...


Ben Ali, biens mal acquis

The case has benefitted from the successful appeal by TI and Sherpa in December against the dismissal by the Paris Prosecutor of the 'Biens mal acquis' (BMA ill gotten goods) case in which the NGOs tried to force a prosecution of three presidents - Gabon's late Omar Bongo Ondimba Congo-Brazzaville's Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo - their families and entourages for embezzling state funds...


A family legacy

The credibility of any claim that the ruling Parti démocratique gabonais (PDG) represented all Gabon’s ethnic groups died along with President Omar Bongo Ondimba in June 2009...

Obame whom Omar Bongo treated as one of the family is Ali Bongo’s most dangerous opponent...


Rumbas in the jungle

Lula was criticised for fostering ties with the late Gabonese President Omar Bongo Ondimba although he drew the line at meeting President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea who was reported by the Brazilian press to have recently bought a penthouse at Ipanema the location of one of Rio de Janeiro’s most famous beaches...


Bongo feels the heat

President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba has maintained a dignified silence over the claim contained in a United States State Department cable of June 2009 and leaked by WikiLeaks that he and his father President Omar Bongo Ondimba personally benefitted from the fraudulent acquisition by Gabonese officials in the Banque des Etats de l’Afrique Centrale of about US$36 million worth of CFA francs...


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