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Bongo’s plan to conquer provinces

Ali Bongo is trying to establish his power in all of Gabon’s nine regions. It is no easy task. [...] (286 words)

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GABON
Ali Bongo
Angelique Ngoma
Emmanuel Issozet Ngondet
Faustin Boukoubi
Mathias Otounga Ossibadjouo
Omar Bongo
Parti Democratique Gabonais
Patience Dabany
Pierre Mamboundou
Richard-Auguste Onouviet
Seraphin Moundounga
Symbolic Grand Lodge of Gabon
Yves Fernand Manfoumbi

Alfred Nziengui Madoungou, Bongo's man in south

Alfred Nziengui Madoungou, 40, President Ali Bongo's political advisor, is the kingpin of Association Renaissance. The organisation headed by Yves-Fernand [...]

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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.

GABON Politics 25/06/2014

Accrombessi survives Haut-Ogooue

Campaigning to be "reelected" as Gabon's leader, Ali Bongo has taken measures to obtain the support of his native Haut-Ogooue province without going so far as to axe his chief of staff Maixent Accrombessi, as some would have liked.

GABON Politics 30/10/2013

Ali beefs up PR for local elections

Feverish in the run-up to the local elections in November, Ali Bongo has brought in his half-sister to bolster his PR team.

GABON Politics 16/10/2013

Ali gets upper hand in Haut-Ogooué

Wanting to avoid any unpleasant surprises in his heartland in the next local elections, Ali Bongo personally supervised the investiture of the GDP candidates.

GABON Politics 17/07/2013

Bongo sees dissidents everywhere

With Gabon's end-of-year local elections looming, President Ali Bongo is still struggling to win over voters in several key provinces.

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 05/06/2013

Bongo falls out with Gabon's Corsicans

Like other French business people who were once pally with Omar Bongo, the head of the construction, casino and airline group Kabi is on poor terms with Ali Bongo.

GABON Politics 01/05/2013

Ali Bongo consolidates power

Ali Bongo is understood to be planning a government reshuffle that will give him an even tighter grip on power. Observers are wondering whether Raymond Ndong Sima will survive as prime minister.

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.

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.

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Ali Bongo
Angelique Ngoma
Emmanuel Issozet Ngondet
Faustin Boukoubi
Mathias Otounga Ossibadjouo
Omar Bongo
Parti Democratique Gabonais
Patience Dabany
Pierre Mamboundou
Richard-Auguste Onouviet
Seraphin Moundounga
Symbolic Grand Lodge of Gabon
Yves Fernand Manfoumbi

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