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Omar Bongo Ondimba (Le Grand Camarade)

Date of Birth: 30 December 1935
Place of Birth: Lewai
Died: 8 June 2009


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Oil slick

Chirac's other old oil-rich ally Gabon's Omar Bongo has survived a series of Elf-related scandals in the French courts and the United States Senate...


Dialogue in Addis

President Omar Bongo of Gabon told Radio-France-Internationale that Kabila should share power for three or four years through a transitional government of national unity...


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...


The new foreign legion

Paris has also been strongly backing President Joseph Kabila's new government in Kinshasa; we hear the Elyseé also favours (and is winning support for) the replacement of Congo mediator Quett Masire with a Francophone perhaps Gabon's Omar Bongo...

Gabon's President Omar Bongo is trying to pull the Communauté Economique des Etats de l'Afrique Centrale into shape...


In the lobbies

A special category is that of the oil exporting countries which have problems with Washington - Sudan the target of both US and United Nations sanctions and Gabon whose President Omar Bongo was damaged by a US Senate investigation into how more than US$180 million was paid into his private US accounts...


Settling Sassou

The patron and financier of Congo-Brazzaville's reconciliation process and official mediator among the parties is the doyen of Francophone African heads of state President Omar Bongo of Gabon...


Dirty deals

With the final million outstanding Monsieur wrote to Sigolet and to André Tarallo Elf's then Finance Director threatening that if he did not get his money he could release damaging documents - orders for arms and ammunition for Lissouba's government some of them signed JS (as in Jacques Sigolet); instructions to FIBA for payment; details of payments for President Omar Bongo's election campaign; and papers about a financial link to Sonangol Angola's state oil company with details of its account at the Crédit Commercial de France...


Hope springs eternal

Further all the warring parties must agree that Masire's co-facilitator would be El Hadj Omar Bongo of Gabon...


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