The BN Village (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
A French Appeal Court in Paris yesterday rejected the demand of the Transparency International (TI) organization for leave to open a probe in France into the estates of three African heads of state. According to TI, the three leaders – Denis Sassou Nguesso of the Republic of Congo, Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial Guinea and the late Omar Bongo of Gabon – have assets in France totaling...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
[JURIST] The Paris Court of Appeals on Thursday refused to hear an embezzlement case brought by the anti-corruption group Transparency International (TI) against the late president of Gabon, the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and the president of Equatorial Guinea. The complaint accused the late Omar Bongo of Gabon, Denis Sassou-Nguesso of the DRC, Teodoro Obiang Nguema of Equatorial...
post-gazette.com (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Most Americans welcomed President Barack Obama's pledge in a speech last month to re-engage the United States in the work of the United Nations. The U.N. can do much important work around the world and also relieve the United States of some of its global responsibilities or aid it in meeting them. All that said, it is fair to add that the U.N. is sometimes difficult to work with, given some of its...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
The Republic Of Gabon is under the control of a new Head of State, Ali Bongo Ondimba, since last Friday October 16, 2009. The 50-year-old son of the former President of Gabon, Omar Bongo Ondimba, who died last June in Barcelona, Spain, is no novice to Gabonese political landscape. Yet he centred his political campaign on change, and it is now pressing on him to deliver on his electoral promises.
Global Security (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Gabon's new president Ali Ben Bongo has named his first government. Mr. Bongo is promising change after more than 40 years under his father, Omar Bongo.
David Lindsay (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Excoriated for using this term, Alan Clark once produced a letter from the then President of Gabon, Omar Bongo. Well, Gabon now has a new President. Omar's son. Whose name is ... Ali Bongo! I laughed so much when this news came through my headphones, that I don't know how I wasn't carted off to the psychiatric ward.
People Daily (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
Ali Bongo Ondimba, the victor in the Aug. 30 presidential elections, took oath of office on Friday at the Presidential Palace in Libreville and succeeded his father Omar Bongo Ondimba, who died on June 8 at the age of 73, after ruling the West African country for 41 years. &$ &$Ali Bongo Ondimba, the victor of Gabon's presidential elections, takes oath of office on Friday at the Presidential...
Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Ali Bongo, the son of the late President Omar Bongo Ondimba, was sworn in Friday in Libreville as President of Gabon after officially winning the 30 August election with 41.79% of votes. When taking the oath, he swore to devote himself to the well being of the Gabonese people “to preserve them from any harm, to [...]
The Good Ole Days Are Now! (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
I found these two lines from an article about a recent election in Gabon very thought-provoking. "Gabon is sub-Saharan Africa's fourth biggest oil producer and Africa's second biggest wood exporter, although most of its 1.4 million people live in poverty. August's election was called after the death of Omar Bongo , one of the world's richest men, who had ruled the nation for four decades."...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
New President Ali Ben Bongo, son of long-time leader Omar Bongo, says Gabon's elites should be renewed.
IOL (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
Gabon's failed opposition candidates urged mass resistance and rejected a top court's validation of the contested poll win of Omar Bongo as president.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 14/10/2009
The transition has been completed in Gabon with the validation of the election of Ali Bongo Ondimba to the presidency of the Republic after the elections on August 30 and after the Constitutional Court had ended Monday night the process initiated following the death of President Omar Bongo Ondimba, June 8.
JURIST (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
[JURIST] The Constitutional Court of Gabon upheld on Monday the presidential election victory of Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba. Bongo, former minister of defence and foreign affairs and of son of long-time Gabonese president Omar Bongo, received over 40 percent of the vote, but was accused of fraud by his challengers. The court rejected the claims filed by the opposition, and ordered that the inauguration...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
Gabon's constitutional court confirmed on Monday evening that Ali Bongo Ondimba was the victor in the presidential election held on Aug. 30. The ruling lifted the final barrier for the 50-year-old politician to ascend to the West African country's top post after his father Omar Bongo Ondimba died on June 8. The verdict was announced by the constitutional court president,Marie Madeleine Mborantsuo,...
SPORTS LIVE STREAM TV (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
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