One year after a bloodless military coup that overthrew Gabon's president Ali Bongo Ondimba ending 55 years of family rule, the fate of the former dynasty remains in limbo. Bongo had ruled the oil ...
(Read also: Military group overthrows President, seizes power in Gabon) The rebels announced ... demonstrators saying they were glad the Bongo family was out of power. Bongo took office in 2009 ...
Latest updates From playboy prince to Gabon's president Gabon country profile ... The army has always been seen as loyal to the Bongo family, he said, because it is dominated by the presidential ...
Bongo later appeared in a video calling on "friends of Gabon" to ... the news of the president's removal, with several demonstrators saying they were glad the Bongo family was out of power.
Gabon's ex-president Ali Bongo Ondimba, who was overthrown in a coup last year, has said he is withdrawing from political life and asked for clemency for his imprisoned wife and son who he said ...
Bongo has served two seven-year terms and seeks to extend his family’s 55-year political ... aimed at electoral transparency in Gabon. President Bongo's objective is “to keep power at all ...
You can't end the political influence of a family that has ruled Gabon for over 50 years, in one day''You can't end the political influence of a family that has ruled Gabon for over 50 years ...