Viewed from the outside new President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba peacefully assumed the presidency on 16 October after waiting more than a month for votes to be recounted for the 30 August national elections (AC Vol 50 No 16)...
Viewed from the outside new President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba peacefully assumed the presidency on 16 October after waiting more than a month for votes to be recounted for the 30 August national elections (AC Vol 50 No 16)...
Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba is using the family name a war chest of petrodollars and a plethora of populist promises to win support in the 30 August presidential election (AC Vol 50 No 13)...
Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba is using the family name a war chest of petrodollars and a plethora of populist promises to win support in the 30 August presidential election (AC Vol 50 No 13)...
Many threaten to beat Ali Ben Bongo but few of the other candidates offer a real challenge...
Ali Ben Bongo is monopolising the political stage: neither former allies nor veteran opponents of the regime seem able to fight back...
Ali Ben is using the structures of the PDG to run his campaign with help from civil society groups such as Génération Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba...
Ali Ben is using the structures of the PDG to run his campaign with help from civil society groups such as Génération Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba...
Presidential son Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba has never denied presidential ambitions and with his half-sister Pascaline and Prime Minister Jean Eyéghé Ndong wrapping things up after Bongo’s death in Barcelona Ali Ben has been the regime’s sole face...
Presidential son Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba has never denied presidential ambitions and with his half-sister Pascaline and Prime Minister Jean Eyéghé Ndong wrapping things up after Bongo’s death in Barcelona Ali Ben has been the regime’s sole face...
His son Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba controls the ministry that counts - he has been Defence Minister since 1999...
His son Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba controls the ministry that counts - he has been Defence Minister since 1999...
As Defence Minister Ali Ben Bongo has brought in a new Chief of Army Staff Colonel Major Jean-Claude Ella Ekogha and a new head of the Conseil National de Sécurité Col...
Bongo has been handing more responsibility to his son and Defence Minister Ali Ben Bongo...
Vol 50 No 1 |
- CENTRAL AFRICA
One of the camps lines up behind presidential son and Defence Minister Ali Ben Bongo the other behind the marital team of Finance Minister Paul Toungui and presidential daughter Pascaline Bongo...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 4 |
- INDIA
- AFRICA
India played host to Gabon's Defence Minister Ali Ben Bongo who is also the President's son and potential successor in November 2007 and is offering increased military and civil aid...
The conflict lay dormant in the 1970s and restarted when President Omar Bongo Ondimba's son Ali Ben Bongo visited the islands in February 2003...