Omar Bongo Ondimba (Le Grand Camarade)

Gabon's Omar Bongo Ondimba the doyen of African presidents described Sarkozy as a 'boy' (he's two decades younger than Bongo) who 'knows what he wants...

They have been involved in probing bank accounts held by (among others) Presidents Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon...

'For me both of them understand nothing' said with characteristic candour Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba in power since 1967 and the doyen of African leaders...

Gabon’s Omar Bongo Ondimba Africa’s longest running head of state with 40 years in power was 71 in December...

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...

Mastery of the political chessboard and lashings of oil revenue have kept President Omar Bongo Ondimba in power for almost four decades and earned him re-election last December...

Having triumphed by massive fraud in November's elections (AC Vol 46 No 24) Africa's longest serving leader Omar Bongo Ondimba looks forward to seven more years as President but faces some embarrassing problems on his western flank...

at a price GABON: Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba starts the year centre-stage in a political scandal involving allegations that he paid $9 mn...

Even if Taylor were tried in Sierra Leone and evidence implicated Compaoré Paris would still back the Burkinabè as it sees him as a successor in the France-Africa pantheon to Gabon's Omar Bongo who ran his own electoral landslide this week (see Pointer)...

The oil on which President Omar Bongo built his power is starting to run out but he carries on as usual after 38 years in the job (AC Vol 46 No 21)...