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Ali Bongo's unquenchable thirst for power

Omar Bongo reigned over Gabon for 42 years. It has taken his son Ali Bongo just three years to put his own, even more hegemonous, stamp on the country. Bongo fils has kept his large family well at arm's length, [...] (648 words)

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Jean-Claude Ella Ekogha
Jean-Francois Ndongou
Laure Olga Gondjout
Magloire Ngamba
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Michael Moussa
Nelson Noel Messone
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Bongo's mum steals show at embassy

Patience Dabany, Ali Bongo's songstress mother, gave a rare performance at independence day celebrations at the Gabonese embassy in Paris recently.

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Ali Bongo tries to rally region's Teke

Feeling isolated regionally, Ali Bongo is looking to strengthen the relationships that his late father Omar Bongo established with ethnic Teke in the countries bordering Gabon.

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Bongo's facelift for spy agencies

Gabonese president Ali Bongo has overhauled the country's security services in a key move in advance of 2016 elections.

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GABON Politics 27/11/2013

Ndong Sima, between rock and a hard place

Always busy with his international agenda, President Ali Bongo has stepped back from national politics and his long-suffering prime minister Raymond Ndong Sima has had to take up the slack. Bongo's distancing himself has triggered a power-struggle between the head

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Jamboree on Rue Raphael

Some 500 guests turned up at the French embassy in

GABON Politics 03/07/2013

Ali and Pascaline fall out over oil

Oil, as well as their father Omar Bongo’s estate, is behind a fresh feud between Ali Bongo and his sister Pascaline.

GABON Politics 19/06/2013

Rival Bongo memorials divide clan

The fourth anniversary of Omar Bongo's death highlighted the divisions among his descendants and his political heirs.

GABON Politics 03/04/2013

Ali Bongo's prefab dreams

Faced with growing popular unrest, Gabon's president is hoping that a major public housing construction project will boost his popularity.

GABON Politics 06/03/2013

Bongo wields a new broom at the top

Gabon’s president seized the occasion of a brief holiday in Italy to plot a shakeup of his staff and name new officials to key government departments.

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GABON Energy 22/01/2013

Ngoubou plays a high stakes energy game

With the big African Cape V oil conference that will draw of the continent’s producers coming up in two months’ time in Libreville, reasons for concern about Gabon’s oil and gas sector headed by Etienne Ngoubou are piling up.

GABON Politics 19/12/2012

Republican Guard "made in France"

François Hollande's election as French president has not changed security relations between Gabon and France, as the makeup of President Ali Bongo's personal guard demonstrates.

GABON Politics 05/12/2012

The rise and rise of Accrombessi

Ali Bongo seems to be attached to the hip to his director of cabinet Maixent Accrombessi, who is now also his assistant at the Grand Lodge of Gabon.

GABON Politics 21/11/2012

Bongo courts London business

Like Niger which held a similar event in June, Libreville is keen to court British interests at the Gabon Investment Forum 2012. Eat your heart out, Paris.

GABON Politics 24/10/2012

Bongo family gather in Paris

She’s no longer a presidential insider but the late Omar Bongo’s eldest daughter Pascaline Bongo can still rally certain members of the Bongo clan.

GABON Politics 10/10/2012

Maixent Accrombessi omnipresent

Oil, finance, intelligence, mysticism: Ali Bongo’s powerful director of cabinet seems to have a finger in every pie.

GABON Politics 10/10/2012

Ndong Sima struggles to find way

Gabon’s prime minister is being kept on a tight rein by the president’s office and the country’s ongoing economic difficulties are adding to his woes.

GABON Politics 12/09/2012

Ali wary of old guard

Gabon's president is worried that opposition leader Andre Mba Obame has started to win over Bongo père’s once-powerful inner circle.

GABON Politics 25/07/2012

Andzembe fires broadside at Bongo

On the eve of a summit meeting of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (CEMAC in its French initials) in Brazzaville on July 25, Philbert Andzembe stirred a bit of a fuss among the region's leaders.

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AFRICA Politics 25/07/2012

How a leader's offspring wield influence

Late French president Francois Mitterrand set the example by naming his son, Jean-Christophe, an adviser at the Elysee Palace. Now it's a rare case when the children of African presidents fail to take advantage of their father's position to load

GABON Politics 28/03/2012

Report slams oil department

A strategic audit of the Direction Generale des Hydrocarbures (DGH) ordered by President Ali Bongo has highlighted the department’s poor management of the sector.

GABON Politics 28/03/2012

Bongo embraces regions

President Ali Bongo is swelling the ranks of Gabon’s executive with politicians from beyond his family’s traditional fiefdom in the south-east.

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Veolia cold-shouldered by Gabon

Despite the Africa Nations Cup going off practically without a

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CENTRAL AFRICA WEST AFRICA Politics 29/02/2012

Elections: Sub-Saharan winter drags on

While the Arab Spring may have raised the hopes of young people in Sub-Saharan Africa, on the whole rulers have managed to avoid regime changes and often made no attempt at transparency during the recent elections across the region.

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GABON Politics 18/01/2012

Bongo fuels oil sector power struggle

Preferring to expound on Gabon’s ‘green’ industries, President Ali Bongo Ondimba rarely speaks in public about oil, despite the fact that even though it is diminishing, the country’s output of crude oil remains Gabon’s primary source of revenue.

GABON Politics 04/01/2012

Bongo’s parliamentary coup

Two years after his contested electoral victory in August 2009, President Ali Bongo has made Gabon’s parliament even more monolithic than it was in his father Omar Bongo’s day.

GABON Politics 14/12/2011

Ali Bongo v Omar loyalists

Political veterans who held positions of power during his father Omar Bongo's presidency are the biggest challenge to President Ali Bongo in Gabon's forthcoming parliamentary elections.

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Bongo’s party headed for landslide

Certain of victory in the upcoming parliamentary elections, the ruling PDG will profit politically even further from the recent death of Pierre Mamboundou.

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Bongo faces polls unchallenged

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GABON Politics 05/10/2011

Ali Bongo's world of business

Since his election in August 2009, Gabon's President Ali Bongo, who is rather isolated in the region, has looked further afield in search of new partners, and with a certain degree of success. Some partners have even set up shop

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Ali Bongo breaks with Teke tradition in military

Raymond Ndong Sima settles his scores with the presidency

Bongo's mum steals show at embassy

Ali Bongo tries to rally region's Teke

Bongo's facelift for spy agencies

Ndong Sima, between rock and a hard place

Jamboree on Rue Raphael

Ali and Pascaline fall out over oil

Rival Bongo memorials divide clan

Ali Bongo's prefab dreams

Bongo wields a new broom at the top

Ngoubou plays a high stakes energy game

Republican Guard "made in France"

The rise and rise of Accrombessi

Bongo courts London business

Bongo family gather in Paris

Maixent Accrombessi omnipresent

Ndong Sima struggles to find way

Ali wary of old guard

Andzembe fires broadside at Bongo

How a leader's offspring wield influence

Report slams oil department

Bongo embraces regions

Veolia cold-shouldered by Gabon

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