Imagine a political career lasting longer than most Hollywood marriages. That’s the story of Omar Bongo’s journey from a small town to Africa’s longest-serving president. Our story starts with a young ...

Former Gabon leader Ali Bongo Ondimba and his family have been released from detention and arrived in Angola’s capital as confirmed by the Angolan presidency on May 16, 2025. Bongo was ousted in a ...

While the Gabonese authorities say that their surprise release is temporary, the ousted former president and his family left the country for Angola. Several African heads of state have personally ...

N'DJAMENA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Gabon's president-elect Ali Ben Bongo visited Chad on Saturday, his third stop on a central African tour intended to garner regional support after winning a vote that ...

LIBREVILLE, June 18 (Reuters) - Above the entrance to the towering oil ministry on a sleek boulevard in Gabon's ocean-front capital Libreville hangs a huge banner that reads like a warning: "Oil will ...

Gabon, where the army Monday called for an uprising, is one of Africa's top oil producers and has been ruled for more than 50 years by the Bongo family. Gabon's president Ali Bongo (R), who took over ...

The eastern bongo is a rare antelope in Kenya facing extinction due to habitat loss and hunting, with only about one hundred left.