Omar Bongo Ondimba (Le Grand Camarade)

President Omar Bongo has postponed them five times saying more time was needed for preparation...

Like Lissouba and a majority of Congolese he belongs to the Bateke people many of whom also live in Zaïre or Gabon (including President Omar Bongo)...

A French judicial investigation into alleged embezzlement by the former chairman of Elf- Aquitaine Loïk le Floch Prigent (currently in custody for his own protection) is embarassing Paris and Libreville by shedding light on the secret channelling of political funds from President Omar Bongo's government to President Jacques Chirac' s Gaullist Rassemblement pour la République...

Presidents Omar Bongo and Henri Konan Bédié asked Chirac to spare the bases from the current military cuts and restructuring...

But Gabon' s President Omar Bongo insists on getting something in exchange for his man's withdrawal...

Proposals to change the shareholdings and the problem of growing loan arrears are top of the agenda for the Libreville summit planned by President Omar Bongo for early July although the meeting is not universally welcomed...

Closest to Kabbaj on the board seems to be the Moroccan director Ahmed El Quadrhiri and Gabon's director Lauré Goundjout who formerly worked in President Omar Bongo's office...

The likely winner he is moreover favoured by neighbouring rulers such as: Abdou Diouf Henri Konan Bédié Lamine Zeroual Gnassingbé Eyadèma Blaise Compaoré Omar Bongo and Mathieu Kérékou...

The likely winner he is moreover favoured by neighbouring rulers such as: Abdou Diouf Henri Konan Bédié Lamine Zeroual Gnassingbé Eyadèma Blaise Compaoré Omar Bongo and Mathieu Kérékou...

They will have plenty of grumbles though when they meet in Libreville on 6-7 July at a meeting convened by Gabon's President Omar Bongo to discuss the problems of the African Development Bank in advance of the Organisation of African Unity summit...

At the time Patassé was in the Villa Adrienne a present from Gabon's President Omar Bongo...