Vol 46 No 24 | GABON On the runway 2nd December 2005 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 | GABON Bongo-gate 21st October 2005 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....
Vol 46 No 4 | GABON The next caliph 18th February 2005 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...
Vol 46 No 2 | GABON Bongo for ever 21st January 2005 The oil is dwindling but the President shows no such weakness It is election year again in Gabon and there is no doubt who will win: President Omar Bongo Ondimba, who has presided over the now declining oil power...
Vol 46 No 2 | GABON New at the convivial party 21st January 2005 Of Gabon's 35 registered political parties, 29 belong to the presidential majority in what President Omar Bongo calls his 'convivial democracy'.