President Paul Biya has taken further steps to save his regime from the fate that befell Gabon's President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba ousted by a military coup on 30 August (AC Vol 64 No 18 Will Biya be next...
President Paul Biya has taken further steps to save his regime from the fate that befell Gabon's President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba ousted by a military coup on 30 August (AC Vol 64 No 18 Will Biya be next...
A month after General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema and his allies seized power in the wake of the disputed elections the new regime is stepping up its diplomatic and business outreach as it launches investigations and audits of President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba's government and family...
A month after General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema and his allies seized power in the wake of the disputed elections the new regime is stepping up its diplomatic and business outreach as it launches investigations and audits of President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba's government and family...
'Paris did not warn Ali Bongo who if he had known would have taken the necessary measures…' Other sources confirmed to Africa Confidential that a few of the better connected diplomats in Libreville had expected the military to respond if it looked like the elections were going to be clearly stolen (Dispatches 30/8/23 Bongo dynasty overthrown after widespread claims of electoral fraud)...
After his stroke in 2018 Ali Bongo '… was in a bad way not only physically but politically too...
Was a Chinese naval base agreed during [ousted president] Ali Bongo's visit to Beijing in July...
The Commission's first counter-move came on 30 August hours after the generals toppled President Ali Ben Bongo in Gabon...
Whether he has done enough to avoid the fate of his southern neighbour President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba remains to be seen...
Whether he has done enough to avoid the fate of his southern neighbour President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba remains to be seen...
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And these ambitious children might be haunted by the fate of Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba reduced to begging on camera for viewers to 'make noise' in the hours after he was overthrown by the commander of his Garde Présidentielle: cue a stream of mocking TikTok clips in which Africans displayed their readiness to 'make noise' by gleefully partying on the streets (AC Vol 64 No 17 General Nguema plans the transition and his political ascendancy)...
And these ambitious children might be haunted by the fate of Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba reduced to begging on camera for viewers to 'make noise' in the hours after he was overthrown by the commander of his Garde Présidentielle: cue a stream of mocking TikTok clips in which Africans displayed their readiness to 'make noise' by gleefully partying on the streets (AC Vol 64 No 17 General Nguema plans the transition and his political ascendancy)...
The speed at which General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema who is due to be sworn in as transitional president on 4 September has consolidated power suggests his putsch against President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba in the early hours of 30 August had been well prepared among a few senior officers and politicians many nursing personal grievances against the regime (Dispatches 30 August 2023 Bongo dynasty overthrown after widespread claims of electoral fraud)...
The speed at which General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema who is due to be sworn in as transitional president on 4 September has consolidated power suggests his putsch against President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba in the early hours of 30 August had been well prepared among a few senior officers and politicians many nursing personal grievances against the regime (Dispatches 30 August 2023 Bongo dynasty overthrown after widespread claims of electoral fraud)...
The opposition coalition's candidate in the election Albert Ondo Ossa said the putsch amounted to a continuation of the Bongo dynasty by other means – 'Behind Oligui Nguema is Pascaline Bongo [Ali Ben Bongo's estranged sister]… so the Bongo clan remains in power...
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Early on 30 August a few hours after Gabon 24 announced that Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba had won a third presidential term with 64...
Early on 30 August a few hours after Gabon 24 announced that Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba had won a third presidential term with 64...
Ali Ben Bongo was elected to the Presidency in 2009 taking over from his father who had come to power in 1967...
The overthrow of Ali Ben Bongo is another blow to the Africa policy of French President Emmanuel Macron who visited Libreville in March to show support for the government...
Former education minister Albert Ondo Ossa who was selected last week as the 'consensus' candidate for Alternance 2023 which brings together six opposition groups immediately labelled the elections as a 'fraud orchestrated by Ali Bongo and his supporters' (Dispatches 22/8/23 Opposition candidate faces battle against time and electoral commission)...
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Initially he was viewed as an outsider compared to Alexandre Barro Chambrier of the opposition Rassemblement Pour La Patrie et la Modernité (RPM) party Union Nationale head Paulette Missambo and Raymond Ndong Sima a former prime minister in one of President Ali Bongo Ondimba's governments...
Initially he was viewed as an outsider compared to Alexandre Barro Chambrier of the opposition Rassemblement Pour La Patrie et la Modernité (RPM) party Union Nationale head Paulette Missambo and Raymond Ndong Sima a former prime minister in one of President Ali Bongo Ondimba's governments...
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The policy started to take shape in February and March after President Macron and President Touadéra met in Gabon in President Ali Bongo Ondimba's presidential palace...
The policy started to take shape in February and March after President Macron and President Touadéra met in Gabon in President Ali Bongo Ondimba's presidential palace...
Touadéra met Macron after being introduced by Mahamat Kaka at President Ali Bongo Ondimba's presidential palace...
Touadéra met Macron after being introduced by Mahamat Kaka at President Ali Bongo Ondimba's presidential palace...
