- Vol 53 No 15
- 19th July 2012
The fog around Samuel Mebiame is clearing. His signature appears,along with those of ministers Mohamed Lamine Fofana and KerfallaYansané, on the controversial loan Guinea took from the South African company Palladino Capital 2 Limited. Mebiane, 42, is the...
- Vol 53 No 11
- 25th May 2012
Efforts to negotiate a compromise between Gabon and South Africa over the contest for the presidency of the African Union Commission are faltering. This is unlikely to be resolved at July’s AU summit in Lilongwe, and instead fresh elections will be held ...
- Vol 53 No 3
- 3rd February 2012
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
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
An oppositionist enjoys his moment in Libreville’s limelight but has no options once the curtain falls
- Vol 52 No 4
- 18th February 2011
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
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
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
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
He already controls the military and now Ali Ben Bongo intends to control the whole country