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Strikes expose Bongo regime's shortcomings

Industrial action over back pay by two companies sheds harsh light on the government's failings. [...]

Published on 05/02/2021 at 05:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Abdoul Oceni Ossa
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Mohamed Ali Saliou
Noureddin Bongo
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Inner circles | Gabon
Noureddin Bongo's parallel task force network

President Ali Bongo's coordinator and eldest son Noureddin Bongo has found a way to assert his influence in government: task forces. These ad hoc teams of civil servants and consultants are ostensibly there to assist government departments, but can have a tendency to bypass them.

Subscribers only Politics 26.03.2021

Domestic debt task force meeting chaired by Nouredin Bongo (far right).

Gabon
Ali Bongo sends his former tutor to the Vatican

The head of state is a practising Muslim but has always been at pains to show he cares about the other religions in his country. The latest display of this diplomatic-spiritual prudence was the appointment of a Frenchman, who was one of his tutors in the 1970s, to represent Gabon at the Holy See.

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Struggling in Tahiti, Omar Bongo's former business partner seeks a comeback in Gabon

Dominique Auroy's interests in Gabon have taken a hit since Ali Bongo came to power, succeeding his late father, with whom Auroy was involved in various projects. Now the Tahiti-based entrepreneur sees hydropower as a way to get back into business in the country.

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Gabon
Mini-reshuffle fails to bury hatchet between Massassa and Obamba

The replacement of four ministers in Christiane Rose Ossouka Raponda's government has done nothing to quell the infighting, especially between oil minister Vincent de Paul Massassa and head of the hydrocarbons division Jean-Félix Obamba.

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Gabon
A second Bongo heir enters the presidency

Bilal Bongo, Gabonese President Ali Bongo's third son, interrupted his studies in the United Kingdom to join the force responsible for the security of his father's seaside palace residence and of the presidential staff.

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Gabon
Sylvia and Pascaline Bongo make up again in latest episode of palace soap opera

They fall out, make up and then fall out again... Now, the Gabonese president's sister and the first lady have patched up up their differences once again. But their reconciliation is having repercussions in the president's family and even on the functioning of the president's office.

Subscribers only Politics 28.10.2020

Inner circles | Gabon
Omar Denis Jr Bongo cuts an increasingly solitary figure

The 26-year-old half-brother of Ali Bongo and grandson of Denis Sassou Nguesso, Omar Denis Jr Bongo, appears to have been increasingly ostracised by the Gabonese president's clan, who suspect him of harbouring presidential ambitions for 2023.

Subscribers only Politics 30.04.2020

Gabon
Bongo clan takes back control of the country's sovereign fund

After having been headed for 10 years by Serge Mickoto, the husband of President Ali Bongo's step-sister, Gabon's sovereign fund has been taken over by a close associate of Mohamed Ali Saliou, best friend of the president's son and closest adviser, Noureddin Bongo.

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Noureddin Bongo's parallel task force network

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Ali Bongo sends his former tutor to the Vatican

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Mini-reshuffle fails to bury hatchet between Massassa and Obamba

Gabon
A second Bongo heir enters the presidency

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