Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba

President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba started the fight by declaring on 29 February that he intended to seek re-election...

President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba started the fight by declaring on 29 February that he intended to seek re-election...

After Omar died in 2009 Ali Ben Bongo beat several other former regime stalwarts to the presidency in a hotly disputed election (AC Vol 50 No 16 After Bongo more Bongo)...

Chambrier formed the Héritage et modernité faction last June in a bid to challenge Ali Bongo's domination of the party...

An embarrassing airing of the wealth extravagance and lavish use of private jets by President Ali Bongo and his family and vast entourage is in store once a lawsuit by a Swiss aviation consulting company gets going in Geneva...

M6's strongest links south of the Sahara are with Senegal's President Macky Sall Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and Gabon's President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba...

M6's strongest links south of the Sahara are with Senegal's President Macky Sall Ivorian President Alassane Dramane Ouattara and Gabon's President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba...

Government officials talk of following the succession model of neighbouring Gabon where Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba succeeded his father in 2009 after an election...

Government officials talk of following the succession model of neighbouring Gabon where Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba succeeded his father in 2009 after an election...

Seasoned investigative journalist Pierre Péan has put the cat among the pigeons yet again with a stream of sensational claims about President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba and his family...

Seasoned investigative journalist Pierre Péan has put the cat among the pigeons yet again with a stream of sensational claims about President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba and his family...

Péan claims that Ali Ben Bongo falsified documents including his birth certificate and school records to cover this up...

The children of Omar Bongo's predecessor President Léon Mba said they were at school in France with Ali Bongo before the Biafran war began...

Péan also details arguments between Ali Bongo and his half-sister Pascaline Mferri Bongo who was for long Omar Bongo's Cabinet Director and reputedly managed the Bongo clan's business affairs (AC Vol 41 No 10 The lobbyists' list)...

Out of the public eye since Ali Bongo's 2009 election victory she suddenly surfaced this month to rebut Péan's charges...

President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba is trying to explain away his government's glacial progress in fighting corruption and raising the living standards of the average citizen...

President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba is trying to explain away his government's glacial progress in fighting corruption and raising the living standards of the average citizen...

No one in the opposition can irritate Ali Bongo's regime like Ping...

One cartoon from a local paper showed Omar Bongo and late oppositionist Pierre Mamboundou as angels in heaven giving advice to Ali Bongo: 'Do not worry...

Among the Francophone African Presidents in attendance were Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville Gabon's Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba and Mali's Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta...

Among the Francophone African Presidents in attendance were Denis Sassou-Nguesso of Congo-Brazzaville Gabon's Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba and Mali's Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta...

Africa Confidential thronged the red carpet to see a relaxed-looking Paul Kagame smiling Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba and fit-looking Denis Sassou-Nguesso arrive from Rwanda Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville respectively...

Africa Confidential thronged the red carpet to see a relaxed-looking Paul Kagame smiling Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba and fit-looking Denis Sassou-Nguesso arrive from Rwanda Gabon and Congo-Brazzaville respectively...

Strangely for an Omar Bongo loyalist and one of the PDG's most stalwart barons Ping has declared that he will run for the presidency against Omar's son the current President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba if the Gabonese people ask him to...

Strangely for an Omar Bongo loyalist and one of the PDG's most stalwart barons Ping has declared that he will run for the presidency against Omar's son the current President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba if the Gabonese people ask him to...

President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba's government is using its leverage knowing that China has no wish to be linked to corporate criminality...

President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba's government is using its leverage knowing that China has no wish to be linked to corporate criminality...