Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba

Since coming to power in 2009 President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba’s government has asked only for patience and delivered only promises...

Since coming to power in 2009 President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba’s government has asked only for patience and delivered only promises...

In early January Ali Ben Bongo reshuffled the cabinet keeping on Prime Minister Paul Biyoghe Mba and naming six new ministers...

After more than a year in power President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba faces rising popular discontent...

After more than a year in power President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba faces rising popular discontent...

The presidential vote was closely split between the south-east which supported Ali Ben Bongo the south-west which supported Pierre Mamboundou and the north which voted for André Mba Obame...

It was revived by a French television documentary this December which claimed that Obame was the real victor with 42% and the result had been switched literally to make Ali Bongo the winner...

Obame whom Omar Bongo treated as one of the family is Ali Bongo’s most dangerous opponent...

To ensure a better turnout at this year’s polls Ali Bongo has applied the principle that money heals all...

President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba has maintained a dignified silence over the claim contained in a United States State Department cable of June 2009 and leaked by WikiLeaks that he and his father President Omar Bongo Ondimba personally benefitted from the fraudulent acquisition by Gabonese officials in the Banque des Etats de l’Afrique Centrale of about US$36 million worth of CFA francs...

President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba has maintained a dignified silence over the claim contained in a United States State Department cable of June 2009 and leaked by WikiLeaks that he and his father President Omar Bongo Ondimba personally benefitted from the fraudulent acquisition by Gabonese officials in the Banque des Etats de l’Afrique Centrale of about US$36 million worth of CFA francs...

André Mba Obame whom he defeated in the presidential poll in 2009 is now claiming – and there are many who believe him – that his score in the poll 42% was simply switched with Ali Bongo’s much lower one and a fraudulent result declared...

The charge was aired in a French television documentary on Françafrique recently and Obame has been making direct comparisons with the situation in Côte d’Ivoire with Ali Bongo in the role of Laurent Gbagbo and Obame as Alassane Ouattara...

Now the Water and Forestry Ministry has caught China’s Société Chinoise de Développement des Bois du Gabon (SDBG) exporting illegal unprocessed logs contravening a ban imposed by President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba’s government in January 2010...

Now the Water and Forestry Ministry has caught China’s Société Chinoise de Développement des Bois du Gabon (SDBG) exporting illegal unprocessed logs contravening a ban imposed by President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba’s government in January 2010...

On 1 June President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba sacked Housing Minister Blaise Louembe – who has only had the job since January – and the entire staff of the Housing Ministry for incompetence...

On 1 June President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba sacked Housing Minister Blaise Louembe – who has only had the job since January – and the entire staff of the Housing Ministry for incompetence...

When he took power in September 2009 President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba announced that the government would look into unfavourable terms in the contract...

When he took power in September 2009 President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba announced that the government would look into unfavourable terms in the contract...

The Chief Executive of a Spanish-based port empire Jacques Dupuydauby brought President Ali Bongo before international arbitration boards this year over a deal that gave port management contracts to France’s Bolloré when Ali Bongo was the head of the Office des Ports et Rades du Gabon...

In August Olam’s plans were announced as part of President Ali Bongo Ondimba’s diplomatic offensive to show that Gabon no longer needs a special relationship with France...

In August Olam’s plans were announced as part of President Ali Bongo Ondimba’s diplomatic offensive to show that Gabon no longer needs a special relationship with France...

Newish President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba aims to end Gabon’s economic dependence on oil along with its traditional ties to France...

Newish President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba aims to end Gabon’s economic dependence on oil along with its traditional ties to France...

Ali Ben Bongo’s father Omar Bongo Ondimba was President of Gabon from 1967 until his death in August 2009 and many Gabonese saw the son – with his privileged overseas upbringing globetrotting and French wife – as an outsider...

Jean-Pierre Oyiba Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba's Chef de cabinet resigned in November 2009 after cheques in his name worth 100 000 euros drawn on the BEP were discovered...

Jean-Pierre Oyiba Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba's Chef de cabinet resigned in November 2009 after cheques in his name worth 100 000 euros drawn on the BEP were discovered...

Last year’s presidential election in Gabon was dubious but ‘Sarko’ rushed to Libreville to show confidence in the dynastic succession of Ali Ben Bongo...