Gabon

Gabon

Population: 1.5 mn.
GDP: 16.8 bn.
Debt: 2.3 bn.
Overview:

President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba will rule unchallenged but his government will struggle to win the public over to Singapore's Olam’s agribusiness plans and other big projects. The government launched an oil company in December 2012 and hopes that agribusiness and new infrastructure spending will boost GDP growth to over 7% in 2013.

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  • 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.

  • Vol 40 No 8
  •  16th April 1999

Bongo for Bill

Frenetic efforts are being made by Washington lobbyists to secure a meeting for President El Hadj Omar Bongo with President Bill Clinton, with a White House encounter slated for 21 April. However, we hear the lobbyists have been trying to find a way arou...

  • Vol 39 No 23
  •  20th November 1998

Bongo rebounds

President El Hadj Omar Bongo will be one of the grimmer-faced heads of state attending the Francophone Summit in Paris on 26-28 November. He is still favoured to win the presidential election on 6 December (and a possible second round on 20 December) but ...

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