Browsing: Gabon

Following a non-violent military takeover a year ago that ousted Gabon’s president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, and terminated 55 years of family governance, the future of the…

Gabon has reported its first case of mpox in a man who had returned from a trip to Uganda, its health ministry said. Cases of the…

Gabonese President General Brice Oligui Nguema has reached out to Africa’s wealthiest man, Aliko Dangote to explore business prospects in the country. According to Dangote Industries…

Gabonese football icon and former Arsenal, Barcelona, and Chelsea striker Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has joined Al-Qadsiah, the newly-promoted Saudi Pro League side said on Thursday. Aubameyang, 35,…

Gabon’s deposed President, Ali Bongo, along with two of his sons, has initiated a hunger strike to protest against what their family lawyer describes as “acts…

In a legal twist, a second-hand dealer triumphs in retaining the €4.2m (£4.6m; $3.6m) proceeds from selling a rare Ngil mask discovered in the attic of…

Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Valentin, the wife of Gabon’s deposed president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, has been formally charged with money laundering and other offences, according to a…

Gabon’s recently appointed prime minister, Raymond Ndong Sima, who assumed office following a coup that ousted President Ali Bongo, has announced plans for a “national dialogue”…

The Biden administration on Tuesday stopped the majority of non-humanitarian aid, following a military coup in Gabon last month, at least the second in an African country this year. “We are pausing certain foreign assistance programs that benefit the government of Gabon while we evaluate the unconstitutional intervention by members of the country’s military,” US

Noureddin Bongo Valentin, the son of Gabon’s recently ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba, along with several associates closely linked to the former leader, has been charged…