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Gabon
Population: 1.5 mn.
GDP: 13.1 bn.
Debt: 2.0 bn.
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President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba's stature will benefit from co-hosting the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations with Equatorial Guinea. His clever diplomacy- working closely with the USA and China- will reap dividends as investors look at iron ore and oil prospects.

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  • Vol 53 No 3
  •  3rd February 2012

Unity is for others

The Gabonese government preaches African unity but finds it harder to practice. After spending tens of millions of dollars on stadia and associated infrastructure, it has found holding (with Equatorial Guinea) the 2012 African Cup of Nations a sport...

  • Vol 52 No 6
  •  18th March 2011

Au revoir, la République

On 27 February, Sammy Kum Buo, Africa Director in the United Nations Secretary General’s office, helped negotiate the dissolution of Andre Mba Obame’s short-lived republic, which he had set up in the UN Development Programme’s office in Libreville. O...

  • Vol 52 No 4
  •  18th February 2011

Obame: no, he can’t

An oppositionist enjoys his moment in Libreville’s limelight but has no options once the curtain falls

  • Vol 52 No 4
  •  18th February 2011

Rearranging the cabinet

Since coming to power in 2009, President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba’s government has asked only for patience and delivered only promises. Holding a cabinet meeting in Tchibanga in January, the President said, ‘I no longer have the desire to waste money’, addin...

  • Vol 52 No 2
  •  21st January 2011

A family legacy

Ali Ben Bongo, who took over the presidency from his father in August 2009, is struggling on both the political and economic fronts

  • Vol 52 No 1
  •  7th January 2011

Bongo feels the heat

President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba has maintained a dignified silence over the claim, contained in a United States State Department cable of June 2009 and leaked by WikiLeaks, that he and his father, President Omar Bongo Ondimba, personally benefitted from t...

  • Vol 50 No 23
  •  20th November 2009

And throw away the key

Viewed from the outside, new President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba peacefully assumed the presidency on 16 October, after waiting more than a month for votes to be recounted for the 30 August national elections (AC Vol 50 No 16). However, in military barracks i...

  • Vol 50 No 16
  •  7th August 2009

After Bongo, more Bongo

He already controls the military and now Ali Ben Bongo intends to control the whole country

  • Vol 50 No 13
  •  26th June 2009

No funeral for Françafrique

On 16 June, Francophone leaders came to bury El HadjOmar Bongo Ondimba, éminence grise of the occult Françafrique networks, and to keep alive the personalised relations between France and its former colonies. Yet no current leader - Presidents Laurent Gba...

  • Vol 50 No 12
  •  12th June 2009

Après Bongo

Foreign leaders head to Libreville for the 16 June state funeral of President Omar Bongo Ondimba, 'le Grand Camerade', and the cabinet meets to discuss the succession

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