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Gabon
Population: 1.5 mn.
GDP: 13.1 bn.
Debt: 2.0 bn.
Overview:

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 47 No 14
  •  7th July 2006

Time's up

The oil is running out and the ruling family is split, after Omar Bongo's forty years in power

  • Vol 47 No 3
  •  3rd February 2006

US hurricane

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. Washington corrupti...

  • Vol 46 No 24
  •  2nd December 2005

On the runway

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). After the poll on 27 November, his election managers duly announced that Bongo (70) had pulled in 79 per c...

  • Vol 46 No 21
  •  21st October 2005

Bongo-gate

The Paris office of Point Presse Afrique, an agency hired by Zacharie Myboto, was burgled on 24 September, for the third time since May. Computer files were stolen. The police noted that the thieves got in without using force - 'a professional job', they ...

  • Vol 46 No 4
  •  18th February 2005

The next caliph

When President Gnassingbé Eyadéma's son Faure Gnassingbé inherited Togo's presidency, Gabonese watched closely. Now President Omar Bongo Ondimba, 69, is Africa's longest-serving head of state. He came to power in 1967, just after Eyad...

  • Vol 46 No 2
  •  21st January 2005

Bongo for ever

The oil is dwindling but the President shows no such weakness

  • Vol 43 No 25
  •  20th December 2002

Hear those drums

For want of opposition, President Bongo can plan to rule until 2012

  • Vol 42 No 16
  •  10th August 2001

Hey big spender

The fuss over how President El Hadj Omar Bongo came to deposit over US$180 million in three private Citibank accounts in New York won't go away.

  • Vol 40 No 22
  •  5th November 1999

Digging deeper holes

Debts and corruption are rocking President Bongo's African emirate

  • Vol 40 No 9
  •  30th April 1999

Bongo's lobby fest

President El Hadj Omar Bongo may not have got to see President Bill Clinton or Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (the latter because of an ostensible diary clash) but his 18-21 April visit to the US capital excited Washington's eager lobbyists.

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