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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 50 No 11
  •  29th May 2009

A filial succession

A crafty old spendthrift nears his end, seeming to have the succession as well as the budget well under control

  • Vol 50 No 11
  •  29th May 2009

Looking for a sense of security

As Defence Minister, Ali Ben Bongo has brought in a new Chief of Army Staff, Colonel Major Jean-Claude Ella Ekogha, and a new head of the Conseil National de Sécurité, Col. Maj. Jean-Philippe Ntumpa Lebani. Before his father left for Spain,...

  • Vol 50 No 6
  •  20th March 2009

Farewell, Lady Bongo

The death of First Lady Edith Lucie Bongo Ondimba née Sassou-Nguesso and her subsequent grand funeral in Libreville on 19 March has prompted a wave of sympathy and political manoeuvring from Africa’s Francophone elite and French officials. Some see it as ...

  • Vol 49 No 21
  •  17th October 2008

Spiralling serpents

President Omar Bongo Ondimba’s anti-corruption drive has produced unexpected results.As Harvard University and the Mo Ibrahim Foundation announced that Gabon was among the top ten best governed African countries, another scandal among its top officials ha...

  • Vol 49 No 9
  •  25th April 2008

Politique a l'Americaine

The election season has started with the usual components of fraud, corruption and attempts by the government to co-opt any credible opposition candidates. A review of the national electoral register ahead of the 27 April local elections showed that 110,0...

  • Vol 48 No 22
  •  2nd November 2007

Digging Belinga

Gabonese are outraged at the terms of a US$3 billion iron ore project at Bélinga and the likely damage to the country’s national parks. We hear that the recently founded Compagnie Minière de Bélinga (Comibel), jointly owned by C...

  • Vol 48 No 15
  •  20th July 2007

Clipping Taiwan

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

  • Vol 48 No 14
  •  6th July 2007

Long arms

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.

  • Vol 48 No 8
  •  13th April 2007

Areva in hot water

The war of words between two non-governmental agencies and French nuclear energy company AREVA escalated last week, with public accusations of malpractice in the extraction of uranium in Niger and Gabon.

  • Vol 47 No 21
  •  20th October 2006

No man an island

United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan wanted to resolve a 35-year old territorial dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Gabon before his tenure ends. That looks doubtful. The minuscule, uninhabited islands of Mbanié, Cocotiers and Conga are p...

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