Omar Bongo Ondimba (Le Grand Camarade)

GABON: Having held power in Gabon for 40 years President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba will not change course in 2008: the kleptocracy and the monopoly of power by the presidential circle will continue...

Gabon's political elite including President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba his son and Defence Minister Ali-Ben Bongo and Forestry Minister Emile Doumba are all forestry concessionaires along with major timber traders from Asia...

The career of Gabon’s consummate diplomat owes its success less to the impact he made as President of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2004-05 than his accomplishments as head of cabinet to the country’s veteran President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba in 1984-90...

President Omar Bongo Ondimba had wanted to secure financing terms for the Bélinga project similar to those for the Transgabonais railway which was finished in the 1980s after enormous cost overruns due to corruption and logistical problems...

In Gabon Sarkozy stoutly defended the doyen of African leaders President Omar Bongo Ondimba...

These documents could support investigations by the Paris Public Prosecutor into transactions by Sassou Gabon's Omar Bongo Ondimba and others (AC Vol 48 No 14)...

President Omar Bongo Ondimba a close ally of Beijing appears to have literally clipped the wings of Taiwan's African diplomacy...

Soares is fascinated by the extraordinary survival skills of the oil-backed ruling class: some of Africa's longest-serving rulers - notably Gabon's Omar Bongo Ondimba and Angola's José Eduardo dos Santos rule over oil-producing countries...

Other characters in Shaxson's dramatis personae include President Omar Bongo and Eva Joly the Norwegian investigating magistrate who broke open the 'l'affaire Elf'...

On 22 June a judge in Bordeaux France found Gabon's President Omar Bongo guilty of accepting a bribe to free French citizen René Cardona from gaol in 1996...

STAYING SINGLE Government systems that have changed little from the single-party days of the 1970s and 1980s include Paul Biya's Cameroon and Omar Bongo Ondimba's Gabon...