Jean Ping

After a fairly bitter election campaign senior officials are urging the defeated candidate and incumbent Gabon’s Jean Ping to work for a smooth handover...

Their view was that South Africa’s challenger Nkosazani Dlamini-Zuma would have enough votes to prevent the incumbent Jean Ping of Gabon from winning the necessary two-thirds victory but could not win herself...

Jacob Zuma rejected Gabon’s proposal that both candidates – Jean Ping the incumbent and Libreville’s candidate and South Africa’s Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma – withdraw...

Yet neither he nor his fellow platform occupants – Somali Prime Minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and African Union Commission President Jean Ping – could announce any breakthrough (AC Vol 53 No 4 No great expectations)...

Obiang is lobbying for Gabon’s former Foreign Minister Jean Ping to get a second term as Chairman of the AU Commission at a summit meeting in Addis Ababa on 23-30 January...

South Africa now also heads the African Union with Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma President Zuma’s ex-wife assuming the chair from Gabon’s Jean Ping...

African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping made the same point at this month’s aid meeting...

Missing Moammar Four African Presidents attended the celebrations – Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Guinea's new President Alpha Condé President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea and Senegal's Abdoulaye Wade – along with African Union Commission President Jean Ping...

President Zuma spent several hours with Colonel Moammar el Gadaffi in Tripoli in the company of fellow members of the AU delegation – and fellow past recipients of the Libyan leader’s largesse – President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of Mauritania President Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville President Amadou Toumani Touré of Mali and the Chairman of the AU Commission Jean Ping of Gabon...

Jean Ping was a former finance minister mines minister and head of the late President Omar Bongo Ondimba’s office in Gabon in 1984-2000...

The AU has not explicitly ruled out the use of force against Gbagbo as proposed by Ecowas but AU Commission Chairman Jean Ping said the ‘absolute priority’ was a ‘negotiated and peaceful’ resolution...