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...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 50 No 10 | 
            - FRANCE
- AFRICA
	     The decision may force the reopening of a 2007 police investigation into the assets of Presidents Omar Bongo Ondimba (Gabon)  Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (Equatorial Guinea)and Denis Sassou-Nguesso (Congo-Brazzaville) that was abruptly shut down...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba  Burkinabè President Blaise Compaoré and Libya's Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi tried to mediate but failed...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Ossébi and Toungamani were planning to join an international legal complaint against  Sassou-Nguesso - he is expected to run for re-election in July after a non-consecutive 24 years in power - and the presidents of neighbouring Equatorial Guinea and Gabon  Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and Omar Bongo Ondimba...
 Gabon's privately owned bimonthly Tendance Gabon was suspended for three months last year for reprinting an article from the respected Paris daily Le Monde about Omar Bongo's private wealth in France...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Some see it as marking the fading of President Omar Bongo Ondimba’s supremacy...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 50 No 5 | 
            - FRANCE
- AFRICA
	     A new book by Pierre Péan  Le Monde selon K (The World according to K) investigates Kouchner's well paid work for Sassou-Nguesso and Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon  prior to his joining the French government in May 2007...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 50 No 3 | 
            - AFRICAN UNION
	     Ping  who is strongly influenced by the close ties of his President  Omar Bongo Ondimba  with President Omer  is trying to persuade European governments to agree to a one-year suspension of the warrant  while an African court investigates the case...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 50 No 2 | 
            - FRANCE
- AFRICA
	    Africa advisor at the Elysée Bruno Joubert will be awaiting a ruling by Paris's parquet on the admissibility of a civil case against Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba  Congo-Brazzaville's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso and Equatorial Guinea's President Teodoro Obiang Nguema for theft of public funds...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
            Vol 50 No 1 | 
            - CENTRAL AFRICA
	       GABON: House of Bongo  The Libreville talk is all about an economy after oil and a political system after President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba...