The opposition coalition's candidate in the election Albert Ondo Ossa said the putsch amounted to a continuation of the Bongo dynasty by other means – 'Behind Oligui Nguema is Pascaline Bongo [Ali Ben Bongo's estranged sister]… so the Bongo clan remains in power...
Conflicts of interest at the Gabonese branch are still a risk: sitting on the board of the holding company is Pascaline Bongo the late President's daughter who served as his foreign minister and then as the Director of the Cabinet of the President in the 1990s and 2000s...
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Times have changed since he was Omar Bongo's Foreign Minister and the partner of his daughter Pascaline Mferri Bongo Ondimba who gave him two children...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 4 |
- GABON
- CHINA
- AUSTRALIA
In 2007 when they signed the deal Pascaline Mferri Bongo Ondimba Ali Ben Bongo’s sister was largely in charge of presidential and family finances...
Many said that there was bad blood between Ali and his half-sister Pascaline Bongo who ran her father’s cabinet and continues to be the family treasurer...
In a sign of reconciliation with his older sister Pascaline Bongo who remains the head of the President's Office Ali Ben's campaign team also includes Foreign Minister Paul Toungui who is also Pascaline's partner...
He is allied with Foreign Affairs Minister Paul Toungui the partner of Pascaline Bongo and is among those in the ruling Parti Démocratique Gabonais who oppose Ali Ben...
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...
Ping has two children with the President’s daughter and current head of the presidential Cabinet Pascaline Bongo and is married to an Italo-Ivorian Jeanne-Thérèse...
One party faction is led by Paul Toungui Economy and Finance Minister and husband of Bongo's daughter and Chef de cabinet Pascaline Bongo...