His main opponent is Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze (‘BBN') Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba's final prime minister...
His main opponent is Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze (‘BBN') Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba's final prime minister...
The ease with which Oligui Nguema has consolidated power since deposing President Ali Bongo Ondimba on 30 August 2023 and building a popular base shows a deft political touch...
The ease with which Oligui Nguema has consolidated power since deposing President Ali Bongo Ondimba on 30 August 2023 and building a popular base shows a deft political touch...
This played well with voters that had seen Ali Bongo enfeebled after a 2018 stroke and reliant on his French wife Sylvia Bongo and their son Noureddin Bongo Valentin implausibly get himself ‘elected' for yet another seven-year mandate...
For example Francophone Gabon whose former leader Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba had a close relationship with Britain's King Charles III was admitted to the Anglophone club of nations...
For example Francophone Gabon whose former leader Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba had a close relationship with Britain's King Charles III was admitted to the Anglophone club of nations...
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Less than 15 months after military officers ousted President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba Gabon is set to vote on a new constitution but the military will not significantly loosen its grip on power...
Less than 15 months after military officers ousted President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba Gabon is set to vote on a new constitution but the military will not significantly loosen its grip on power...
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Despite being suspended by the African Union after Nguema overthrew President Ali Bongo Ondimba in an August 2023 coup Gabon has remained a theatre of intense geopolitical contestation (AC Vol 64 No 18 General Nguema plans the transition and his political ascendancy)...
Despite being suspended by the African Union after Nguema overthrew President Ali Bongo Ondimba in an August 2023 coup Gabon has remained a theatre of intense geopolitical contestation (AC Vol 64 No 18 General Nguema plans the transition and his political ascendancy)...
Nguema was undeterred by France's swift condemnation of his coup and a Paris court's dismissal of corruption charges against Ali Bongo's half-sister Pascaline in April...
President Ali Bongo Ondimba reportedly told astonished United States officials just before Nguema overthrew him in August that he had promised President Xi Jinping that China could station military forces in his country...
President Ali Bongo Ondimba reportedly told astonished United States officials just before Nguema overthrew him in August that he had promised President Xi Jinping that China could station military forces in his country...
The 30 August coup was an elite affair designed to sustain a system that risked being cracked apart by another presidential term for a still evidently unwell Ali Bongo Ondimba widely perceived as the puppet of his wife Sylvia and son Nourredin Bongo Valentin...
The 30 August coup was an elite affair designed to sustain a system that risked being cracked apart by another presidential term for a still evidently unwell Ali Bongo Ondimba widely perceived as the puppet of his wife Sylvia and son Nourredin Bongo Valentin...
With coups fashionable again in West Africa Cameroon will continue to resemble low-hanging fruit for putschists in 2024 despite Biya's rapid moves after the fall of President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba in Gabon on 30 August (AC Vol 64 No 18 Will Biya be next...
With coups fashionable again in West Africa Cameroon will continue to resemble low-hanging fruit for putschists in 2024 despite Biya's rapid moves after the fall of President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba in Gabon 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...
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...