Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba

Of his cheerleaders only three presidents – Gabon’s Ali Ben Bongo Côte d’Ivoire’s Alassane Dramane Ouattara and Burkina Faso’s Blaise Compaoré – helped at the conference...

Samuel used to be close to Ali Ben Bongo Omar’s son and current President but they fell out after he campaigned for former Premier André Mba Obame in 2009’s presidential poll...

Gabon’s President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba told Africa Confidential that his offer of a face-to-face meeting with South African President Jacob Zuma had been rejected...

Gabon’s President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba told Africa Confidential that his offer of a face-to-face meeting with South African President Jacob Zuma had been rejected...

That statement was contradicted by Presidential Spokesman Alain Claude Billié Bi Nzé on 10 August when he declared that President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba was committed to working with Chinese partners to avoid 'a conflict that would cause the mine to be unexploitable'...

That statement was contradicted by Presidential Spokesman Alain Claude Billié Bi Nzé on 10 August when he declared that President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba was committed to working with Chinese partners to avoid 'a conflict that would cause the mine to be unexploitable'...

Olam and its Indian counterparts – Tata Chemicals and Ramky Infrastructure – are behind several key projects vaunted by President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba including the special economic zone at Nkok oil palm plantations and a new fertiliser plant planned for the economic capital Port-Gentil...

Olam and its Indian counterparts – Tata Chemicals and Ramky Infrastructure – are behind several key projects vaunted by President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba including the special economic zone at Nkok oil palm plantations and a new fertiliser plant planned for the economic capital Port-Gentil...

Before hosting the New York Africa Forum on 8-10 June President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba visited mining companies in Australia and Brazil...

Before hosting the New York Africa Forum on 8-10 June President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba visited mining companies in Australia and Brazil...

President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba’s governing Parti Démocratique Gabonais (PDG) thus cuts the ground from beneath the Chinese contractors who were to invest hugely in port rail and related infrastructure to mine process and export the 1 bn...

President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba’s governing Parti Démocratique Gabonais (PDG) thus cuts the ground from beneath the Chinese contractors who were to invest hugely in port rail and related infrastructure to mine process and export the 1 bn...

However the election of his son Ali Ben Bongo in October 2009 brought about its ultimate undoing...

However Ali Bongo came to power promising that the contract would be reviewed essentially freezing the project in its tracks...

In 2007 when they signed the deal Pascaline Mferri Bongo Ondimba Ali Ben Bongo’s sister was largely in charge of presidential and family finances...

Neighbour President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba of Gabon bucked the trend while the United States prodded other seemingly indifferent governments (even France) into issuing statements attacking the probity of the polls...

Neighbour President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba of Gabon bucked the trend while the United States prodded other seemingly indifferent governments (even France) into issuing statements attacking the probity of the polls...

In early March Justice Minister Ida Reteno Assonouet wrote to Assemblée Nationale President Guy Nzouba Ndama to ask the legislature currently dominated by President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba’s Parti Democratique Gabonais to vote on the government’s request to remove Obame’s parliamentary immunity...

In early March Justice Minister Ida Reteno Assonouet wrote to Assemblée Nationale President Guy Nzouba Ndama to ask the legislature currently dominated by President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba’s Parti Democratique Gabonais to vote on the government’s request to remove Obame’s parliamentary immunity...

Ali Bongo is now trying to co-opt Pierre Mamboundou a more significant opposition figure into a wider presidential alliance ahead of the legislative elections which are likely to be postponed until February 2012...

President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba appears intent on dealing with Obame by ignoring him...

President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba appears intent on dealing with Obame by ignoring him...

He is contesting the results of the 2009 poll which brought Ali Ben Bongo to power...

Ban Ki-moon has already visited Gabon and congratulated President Ali Bongo on his victory...

However the PDG is no longer the force it once was and Ali Ben Bongo doesn’t have much money for cooption...