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Third social tour for Ali‘16!

The fruit of the national dialogue launched in May between the government and parts of the opposition, the new 38-member executive formed by Ali Bongo on 21 August is unlikely to calm the tensions which have been coursing through Gabon [...] (614 words)

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GABON
African Union
Ali Bongo
Coalition pour la Nouvelle Republique
Conseil Economique et Social
Emmanuel Issoze Ngondet
Etienne Massard Kabinda Makaga
European Union
GCFAO Gabon
Halliburton
International Monetary Fund
Jean Ping
Jean-Fidele Otandault
Lambert Matha
Maixent Accrombessi
Organisation des Employes du Petrole
Pierre Claver Maganga Moussavou
Regis Immongault
Rene Ndemezo'o Obiang
Richard Attias
Societe Gabonaise de Securite
Sodexo
Somdiaa
Veolia

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Pierre Claver Maganga Moussavou, Ali Bongo's ‘southern' card

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SGS on the edge of the precipice

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Deprived of French credit, Ouattara turns to Luxembourg

Ali Bongo does some spring cleaning

Jean Eyeghe Ndong dreams of presidency

Security chiefs and Freemasons close ranks around Julien Nkoghe Bekale

RAM flies the flag for human rights

Mohammed VI takes a pre-summit break in Gabon

Ali Bongo misses the fairway

A war of words within the government

The government plays the SEEG card

Ali Bongo's strategy to legitimise his second term

Bouygues shutdown decision provokes union outrage

Sandy Wade, Africa Advisory Partners's ‘local' card

Benatiq struggles with ECOWAS quandary

Pierre Claver Maganga Moussavou, Ali Bongo's ‘southern' card

SGS on the edge of the precipice

The weather's turning grey at Veolia

Alexandre Barro-Chambrier proposes himself as the third way

Rene Ndemezo'o Obiang, the master of self-reinvention

Richard Attias urges Ali Bongo to stump up!

Ben Moubamba plays the part of Bongo's enforcer

Ali Bongo’s secret weapon: splitting the opposition

Minister Houangni defuses labor bomb among oil workers

Bongo wants to keep the ball front and centre

Bongo subjects Accrombessi’s machine to a vigorous purge

The opposition talks about change

Bissielo brings the opposition together

How Bongo’s presidential race suddenly became much tougher

Seaside palace in a tizzy ahead of elections

Bongo picks Accrombessi as peacemaker with Sassou

Everybody seeks to rope in Fang community

Bongo outmanoeuvres PDG dissidents over presidential poll

Ali Bongo, Jean Ping square off

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