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Ali Bongo mired in social unrest

Five years after coming to power Ali Bongo has been unable to halt the social crises that regularly paralyse the country. [...] (330 words)

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Agence Nationale des Bourses du Gabon
Convention Nationale des Syndicats du Secteur Education
Daniel Ona Ondo
Etienne Massard Cabinda Makaga
Herve Opiangah
Ida Assenouet Reteno Ndiaye
Jean-François Thardin
Leon Nzouba
Mouvement des Syndicats des Agents de l'Administration Publique
Omar Bongo
Pacome Moubelet-Boubeya
Raymond Ndong Sima

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Pean: Ali Bongo to sue over Rawiri claims

While he might have tolerated the parts of the book [...]

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GABON Politics 19/11/2014

Opposition ups pressure on Ali Bongo

French journalist Pierre Pean's damning book on Ali Bongo, "New African Affairs: Lies and Pillaging in Gabon", has rapidly turned into an affair of state in Libreville, particularly its reiteration of an old claim that Bongo may not be Gabonese [. [...]

GABON Politics 05/11/2014

Collection box for permanent Bongo memorial

Libreville is looking to build a mausoleum for Omar Bongo but funders are not exactly queuing up to finance it. [...]

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French author drops a bombshell on the presidential palace

Almost everything in Ali Bongo’s CV, whether it be his nationality, his baccalaureate result, his university degrees or his presidential [...]

GABON Politics 23/07/2014

Unrest stirs in Libreville

Ali Bongo is back touring foreign parts again, perhaps in the hope of drawing attention away from Gabon's social and economic woes. [...]

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Ali's hot air PR machine

Spin doctors have cast the Gabonese president as a builder. But the reality on the ground is very different. [...]

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Bongo places favorites in top government posts

Three close associates of president Ali Bongo are now running the key interior and defense ministries in the extended government [...]

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Ali Bongo takes on all comers

Defeating a 40-year-old establishment cannot be easy. In an effort to impose his vision and move forward with his "Emergence" project to develop Gabon, Ali Bongo is constantly having to do battle with his late father Omar Bongo's acolytes, as [. [...]

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Agence Nationale des Bourses du Gabon
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Daniel Ona Ondo
Etienne Massard Cabinda Makaga
Herve Opiangah
Ida Assenouet Reteno Ndiaye
Jean-François Thardin
Leon Nzouba
Mouvement des Syndicats des Agents de l'Administration Publique
Omar Bongo
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Raymond Ndong Sima

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