President Ali Bongo Ondimba reportedly told astonished United States officials just before Nguema overthrew him in August that he had promised President Xi Jinping that China could station military forces in his country...

President Ali Bongo Ondimba reportedly told astonished United States officials just before Nguema overthrew him in August that he had promised President Xi Jinping that China could station military forces in his country...

The 30 August coup was an elite affair designed to sustain a system that risked being cracked apart by another presidential term for a still evidently unwell Ali Bongo Ondimba widely perceived as the puppet of his wife Sylvia and son Nourredin Bongo Valentin...

The 30 August coup was an elite affair designed to sustain a system that risked being cracked apart by another presidential term for a still evidently unwell Ali Bongo Ondimba widely perceived as the puppet of his wife Sylvia and son Nourredin Bongo Valentin...

With coups fashionable again in West Africa Cameroon will continue to resemble low-hanging fruit for putschists in 2024 despite Biya's rapid moves after the fall of President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba in Gabon on 30 August (AC Vol 64 No 18 Will Biya be next...

With coups fashionable again in West Africa Cameroon will continue to resemble low-hanging fruit for putschists in 2024 despite Biya's rapid moves after the fall of President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba in Gabon on 30 August (AC Vol 64 No 18 Will Biya be next...

President Paul Biya has taken further steps to save his regime from the fate that befell Gabon's President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba ousted by a military coup on 30 August (AC Vol 64 No 18 Will Biya be next...

President Paul Biya has taken further steps to save his regime from the fate that befell Gabon's President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba ousted by a military coup on 30 August (AC Vol 64 No 18 Will Biya be next...

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 outreach as it launches investigations and audits of President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba's government and family...

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 outreach as it launches investigations and audits of President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba's government and family...

'Paris did not warn Ali Bongo who if he had known would have taken the necessary measures…' Other sources confirmed to Africa Confidential that a few of the better connected diplomats in Libreville had expected the military to respond if it looked like the elections were going to be clearly stolen (Dispatches 30/8/23 Bongo dynasty overthrown after widespread claims of electoral fraud)...

After his stroke in 2018 Ali Bongo '… was in a bad way not only physically but politically too...

Was a Chinese naval base agreed during [ousted president] Ali Bongo's visit to Beijing in July...

The Commission's first counter-move came on 30 August hours after the generals toppled President Ali Ben Bongo in Gabon...

Whether he has done enough to avoid the fate of his southern neighbour President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba remains to be seen...

Whether he has done enough to avoid the fate of his southern neighbour President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba remains to be seen...

And these ambitious children might be haunted by the fate of Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba reduced to begging on camera for viewers to 'make noise' in the hours after he was overthrown by the commander of his Garde Présidentielle: cue a stream of mocking TikTok clips in which Africans displayed their readiness to 'make noise' by gleefully partying on the streets (AC Vol 64 No 17 General Nguema plans the transition and his political ascendancy)...

And these ambitious children might be haunted by the fate of Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba reduced to begging on camera for viewers to 'make noise' in the hours after he was overthrown by the commander of his Garde Présidentielle: cue a stream of mocking TikTok clips in which Africans displayed their readiness to 'make noise' by gleefully partying on the streets (AC Vol 64 No 17 General Nguema plans the transition and his political ascendancy)...

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 President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba in the early hours of 30 August had been well prepared among a few senior officers and politicians many nursing personal grievances against the regime (Dispatches 30 August 2023 Bongo dynasty overthrown after widespread claims of electoral fraud)...

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 President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba in the early hours of 30 August had been well prepared among a few senior officers and politicians many nursing personal grievances against the regime (Dispatches 30 August 2023 Bongo dynasty overthrown after widespread claims of electoral fraud)...

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...