Spotlight | Gabon
Noureddin Bongo arrest puts Western consultants out of a job

Gabon
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema promotes private office director to board of strategic investment fund

Transition President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema is set to appoint the head of his private office Victorine Tchicot to the Gabonese Sovereign Wealth Fund (FGIS)'s board of directors.

Gabon
General Oligui appoints new Paris ambassador

Gabon's transitional president wants to keep civil servants too closely linked to the former regime and former first lady Sylvia Bongo at a distance and so has replaced the country's ambassador to France, Liliane Massala.

Gabon
Junta tries to track down Noureddin Bongo's London assets

Since the 30 August coup, transition president Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema's administration has been trying to get to grips with the tangle of assets held in Libreville, Dubai and London by Noureddin Bongo, the son of ousted president Ali Bongo, and his associates.

Spotlight | Gabon
Freemasons chose new leader to replace Ali Bongo

The Grande Loge du Gabon, the powerful Masonic lodge headed until recently by the now deposed president Ali Bongo, has found a new Grand Master in the person of Jacques Denis Tsanga.

Gabon
General Oligui to scrutinise debts of Ali Bongo era

With the assistance of military intelligence and the BGFI bank, a new task force is to conduct an inventory of the state's debts as well as looking into transactions conducted by advisers to Noureddin Bongo.

Palace Intrigues
Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Alassane Ouattara, Félix Tshisekedi, Vincent de Paul Massassa

Intrigues big and small: every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

Congo Influential Julienne Johnson becomes an official adviser to her father

Ivory Coast Ouattara's former special adviser Serey-Eiffel back in Abidjan

DRC Tshisekedi's favourite luxury hotels in the Big Apple

Gabon Vincent de Paul Massassa makes a final, quick trip to oil ministry

Palace Intrigues
Ali Bongo, William Ruto, Nasser Bourita

Intrigues big and small: every Tuesday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

Gabon the untold story behind Ali Bongo's distress call

Kenya Kenyatta's confidant's support for Ruto goes down badly

Morocco Bourita resumes talks with the French ambassador

Gabon
Businessman Noureddin Bongo sets up new London investment firm

As Gabon's political classes gear up for this summer's elections, the ex-coordinator of presidential affairs Noureddin Bongo is quietly tending to his business affairs in London, where he has set up the firm Loup LTD to invest in the tech sector.