Vol 65 No 4 | GABON China's base desires 15th February 2024 Washington sees the possibility of China building a military base on the coast of Gabon, as well as other port investments by China on the African Atlantic coast, as a strategic th...
Vol 64 No 21 | GABON General Nguema consolidates his palace coup 9th October 2023 African and western states are putting little pressure on the junta as it announces it will be in power for at least two years A month after General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema and his allies seized power in the wake of the disputed elections, the new regime is stepping up its diplomatic and business outr...
Vol 64 No 18 | GABON General Nguema plans the transition and his political ascendancy 1st September 2023 A palace putsch fired by anger over a disputed election ends Ali Ben Bongo's rule but not the old elite's influence The speed at which General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, who is due to be sworn in as transitional president on 4 September, has consolidated power suggests his putsch against Pres...
DISPATCHES Vol 64 No 18 | GABON Bongo dynasty overthrown after widespread claims of electoral fraud 30th August 2023 Putsch in Libreville is ninth military seizure of power in Africa in the last three years Early on 30 August, a few hours after Gabon 24 announced that Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba had won a third presidential term with 64.3% of the votes in the elections held over the weekend... READ FOR FREE
DISPATCHES Vol 64 No 17 | GABON Opposition candidate faces battle against time and electoral commission 22nd August 2023 Ondo Ossa was selected to lead the alliance to challenge President Ali Bongo Ondimba just eight days before national elections On 18 August, Albert Ondo Ossa, the 69-year-old former education minister, emerged as the consensus candidate as the surprise pick of Alternance 2023, which brings together six opp... READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 24 | GABONCONGO-KINSHASA Bank admits wrongdoing but hits out at data leak 27th November 2021 Central Africa's biggest bank, BGFI, says it cleaned up its operations in Kinshasa back in 2018 After refusing to respond for years to accusations of grand corruption in its operations in Congo-Kinshasa, central Africa's biggest bank has come as close as its lawyers would all...
Vol 62 No 24 | GABONCONGO-KINSHASA The bank at the heart of the scandal 19th November 2021 Owned partly by the Bongo family, the BGFI was implicated in corruption before its Kinshasa operations were exposed The bank at the centre of the Congo Hold-up consortium's revelations of state capture and grand corruption in Congo-Kinshasa, Banque Gabonaise et Française Internationale (B... READ FOR FREE
Vol 62 No 22 | GABON Row over abuse probe 4th November 2021 The decision in mid–September by the United Nations to immediately repatriate Gabon's entire 450-strong peacekeeping unit from the Mission multidimensionnelle intégrée des Na...
Vol 62 No 13 | CHADGABONCONGO-KINSHASAUNITED NATIONS Gabon ires fellow Africans at the UN 22nd June 2021 A bitter dispute between African Union members over a non-permanent seat on the Security Council has broken into the open Furious argument has erupted over the normally placid elections by the UN General Assembly for one of the two non-permanent seats reserved for African countries on the UN Security ...
Vol 61 No 15 | GABON Public relations premier 23rd July 2020 The promotion of Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda as Gabon's first woman Prime Minister is an astute piece of PR that may be welcomed in Paris and other European chancelleries even ...