Omar Bongo Ondimba (Le Grand Camarade)

' A few weeks before the release Calil told AC that there were some key questions about the plot raised in Mann's statements that needed answering: the role of Gabon's late President Omar Bongo Ondimba whom Mann met in 2003 in the critical planning stages of the coup; the role of other business interests - aside from Calil and Thatcher - in financing the plot; and why the plotters carried on after they had received a clear warning from South African security services in late 2003 to abandon it...

euros) of Presidents Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville that had been abruptly shut down (AC Vol 50 No 2)...

The face of the late President Omar Bongo Ondimba still figures large on posters along the main boulevards of Libreville...

Omar Bongo used the PDG to balance the Fang against the smaller ethnic groups such as the Nzébi awarding the Prime Minister's post to a Fang but allowing the Nzebi representatives greater control over finances...

In the post-Omar Bongo PDG there is an emerging alliance between the centre-south and the south-east...

Both were on good terms with another oil sheikh the late President Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon and flew to Libreville for his funeral a grand gathering of the African and Euro-African clans...

On 16 June Francophone leaders came to bury El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba éminence grise of the occult Françafrique networks and to keep alive the personalised relations between France and its former colonies...

His will to rule seems unshaken by the death in March at 45 of his eldest daughter Edith Lucie Bongo Ondimba wife of Gabonese President Omar Bongo Ondimba who died this month (see Gabon)...

The death of El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba gives French President Nicolas Sarkozy the clearest chance to break with the opaque Françafrique networks although he has avoided previous opportunities for change...

Remembered internationally for the Elf oil scandal and his friendships on both left and right of France’s political spectrum the late President has left the landscape littered with Omar Bongo Ondimba universities and little-used presidential palaces...

Omar Bongo’s death complicates the ruling family’s life...

Gabon’s Petrolin markets its own crude; its owner is local businessman Samuel Dossou-Aworet a business ally of the late President Omar Bongo Ondimba and his family...

If President Omar Bongo Ondimba had a dollar for every time his demise was announced over the last 20 years he would be even richer than he already is...

Omar Bongo Ondimba is from the Bateke who span the Gabonese-Congolese border and his opponenets claim that he is Congolese...