Omar Bongo

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.

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Bill Gates, Faure Gnassingbé, Ali Bongo, Jutta Urpilainen

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Senegal Gates due in Dakar for another Grand Challenges

Togo/Gabon Faure Gnassingbé loses his EPL-watching pal Ali Bongo

Ethiopia EU Commissioner Urpilainen's big Addis Ababa announcement

Gabon
General Oligui Nguema's government looks to balance old and new

The government installed by General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema brings in new faces from the Gabonese expatriate community, as well as former heavyweights from the Omar Bongo era. The aim is to consolidate the authority of the country's new strong man.

Gabon
Deposed president Ali Bongo allowed some visitors despite house arrest

Under house arrest and cut off from his family, deposed Gabonese president Ali Bongo nonetheless continued to receive a handful of low-profile visits.

Congo
'Ill-gotten gains': Sassou clan braces for fresh charges

The Congolese so-called 'ill-gotten gains' case will gather pace in the next months. President Denis Sassou-Nguesso is irked that his granddaughter, Yacine Queenie Bongo, has been summoned by the French courts, who may follow suit with his son, Denis Christel Sassou-Nguesso, in late August.

Congo, Gabon
Omar Denis Junior Bongo's Brazzaville dowry sparks hopes of Gabon detente

The grandson of Congolese president Sassou Nguesso has given his fiancée's family a dowry at a ceremony in Brazzaville in the presence Omar Bongo's eldest daughter Pascaline, heralding a further thaw in relations between the two countries.

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Denis Sassou Nguesso, Pascaline Bongo, Sylvère Koyo, and Thomas Boni Yayi

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Congo RepublicPascaline Bongo's discreet visit to Denis Sassou Nguesso

TogoMacron's Africa adviser meets Faure Gnassingbé in Lomé

Ivory CoastTrouble stirs at the Grande Loge de Côte d'Ivoire

GuineaThomas Boni Yayi postpones Conakry visit

Gabon
Jean Ping allowed to travel again after years of house arrest

Having been banned from leaving Gabon for almost 7 years, Jean Ping, who still insists he rather than Ali Bongo was the rightful winner of a 2016 presidential election, will in the coming days travel to France for medical tests after being given a passport.

Congo
President's grandchildren get new lawyer in ill-gotten gains case

Two of the Congolese president's grandchildren - Omar Denis Junior Bongo and Yacine Bongo - now have a new lawyer representing them in the ill-gotten gains case.

Ivory Coast
Corsican businessman Michel Tomi to open casino in Abidjan

To boost his business in Africa, the Corsican entrepreneur is hoping to open what would be Abidjan's second casino, for which he will have to also build a 5-star hotel.

Africa
Emmanuel Macron, Andry Rajoelina, Denis Sassou Nguesso, Mohamed Médiène

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Louise Mushikiwabo, Sameh Shoukry, Catherine Colonna, Abderrahim Atmoun, André de Ruyter and Pierre Haik

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GabonOIF shuns One Forest Summit

EgyptMinisters Sameh Shoukry and Catherine Colonna fail to meet in Geneva

MoroccoAbderrahim Atmoun, ambassador in Warsaw and hotel owner in Paris

South AfricaFormer Eskom boss's accusations rattle ANC

France/AfricaVIP turnout for French lawyer Pierre Haik's funeral