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...
Vol 50 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Buoyed by his success in negotiating a power-sharing deal between Côte’s d’Ivoire’s President Gbagbo and the northern-based FN rebels Compaoré now styles himself as a regional mediator in Francophone Africa after the fashion of Gabon's Omar Bongo but Liberians and Sierra Leoneans have less happy memories of his regional operations with Liberian warlord Charles Taylor...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 10 |
- SENEGAL
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...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 4 |
- GABON
- CHINA
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...