Ali Bongo Stories

Brice Oligui Nguema, now the transitional president, staged a coup against Ali Bongo in August 2023. Oligui Nguema and his military junta promised to...

The new constitution would introduce two-term limits on the presidency, remove the position of prime minister and recognise French as Gabon's working...

The Gabonese largely welcomed the military's ouster of president Ali Bongo, whose family's poor management of the central African country's oil wealth...

The putschists accuse Sylvia Bongo of having manipulated the former president, who is suffering the after-effects of a serious stroke in 2018.