Omar Bongo Ondimba (Le Grand Camarade)

Wade's monument stands as a rejection of those lofty goals: instead of commissioning one of Africa's many internationally renowned sculptors to design the monument Wade hired North Korea's Mansudae Overseas Project Group which specialises in building monuments of the neo-Stalinist school for such autocrats as Equatorial Guinea's Teodoro Obiang Nguema Gabon's late Omar Bongo Ondimba and Togo's late Gnassingbé Eyadéma...

Having won a dangerous game of brinkmanship President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba is trying to re-excite China's interest in the Bélinga iron ore project...

Then he spent two days in Gabon discussing minerals and power with President Omar Bongo Ondimba...

Now for the third time two non-governmental organisations Transparency International and Sherpa launched a case on 2 December to seize assets held in France by Congo-Brazzaville’s President Denis Sassou-Nguesso Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema and Gabon’s Omar Bongo Ondimba...

Libya's Moammar el Gadaffi Gabon's Omar Bongo Ondimba and Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe have served even longer...

Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba heavily backed by France has so far been the main mediator...

Gabon's President-for-life Omar Bongo also makes a guest appearance...

President Omar Bongo Ondimba’s anti-corruption drive has produced unexpected results...

Khartoum also announced that in Japan Omer had told Gabonese President Haj Omar Bongo Ondimba who presided over March’s Dakar Agreement between Khartoum and Ndjamena that Sudan had ‘no interest in feuding with Chad’...

Oppositionists were bewildered when Pierre Mamboundou the only opposition politician with a credible following agreed to join a future government under President Omar Bongo Ondimba...