Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba

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...

Current President Ali Bongo’s first wife Inge Lynn Collins Bongo also kept substantial funds in the US using a trust to open accounts that masked her connection to the Bongo family and at the same time claimed poverty – and food stamps...

Now that Bongo’s son former Defence Minister El Hadj Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba has replaced him at the presidential palace the government (largely made up of the same Parti Démocratique Gabonais cadres as before) and the chattering classes only have bad things to say about the deal...

Now that Bongo’s son former Defence Minister El Hadj Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba has replaced him at the presidential palace the government (largely made up of the same Parti Démocratique Gabonais cadres as before) and the chattering classes only have bad things to say about the deal...

In early April Vale representative Edouardo Ledsham met with President Ali Ben Bongo to discuss ‘investment opportunities’...

During his first policy pronouncements of a new term in office new President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba's Prime Minister Paul Biyoghé Mba said that the US$3...

During his first policy pronouncements of a new term in office new President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba's Prime Minister Paul Biyoghé Mba said that the US$3...

Gabon's new President Ali Bongo Ondimba visited on 21 October offering to continue the mediation with dissidents that his father President Omar Bongo Ondimba once pursued with mixed results...

Gabon's new President Ali Bongo Ondimba visited on 21 October offering to continue the mediation with dissidents that his father President Omar Bongo Ondimba once pursued with mixed results...

Viewed from the outside new President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba peacefully assumed the presidency on 16 October after waiting more than a month for votes to be recounted for the 30 August national elections (AC Vol 50 No 16)...

Viewed from the outside new President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba peacefully assumed the presidency on 16 October after waiting more than a month for votes to be recounted for the 30 August national elections (AC Vol 50 No 16)...

Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba is using the family name a war chest of petrodollars and a plethora of populist promises to win support in the 30 August presidential election (AC Vol 50 No 13)...

Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba is using the family name a war chest of petrodollars and a plethora of populist promises to win support in the 30 August presidential election (AC Vol 50 No 13)...

Many threaten to beat Ali Ben Bongo but few of the other candidates offer a real challenge...

Ali Ben Bongo is monopolising the political stage: neither former allies nor veteran opponents of the regime seem able to fight back...

Ali Ben is using the structures of the PDG to run his campaign with help from civil society groups such as Génération Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba...

Ali Ben is using the structures of the PDG to run his campaign with help from civil society groups such as Génération Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba...

Presidential son Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba has never denied presidential ambitions and with his half-sister Pascaline and Prime Minister Jean Eyéghé Ndong wrapping things up after Bongo’s death in Barcelona Ali Ben has been the regime’s sole face...

Presidential son Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba has never denied presidential ambitions and with his half-sister Pascaline and Prime Minister Jean Eyéghé Ndong wrapping things up after Bongo’s death in Barcelona Ali Ben has been the regime’s sole face...

His son Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba controls the ministry that counts - he has been Defence Minister since 1999...

His son Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba controls the ministry that counts - he has been Defence Minister since 1999...