Gabon's military leader announced Monday that he would run as a candidate in the oil-rich central African nation’s presidential election set for April 12. Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, who is ...

Gabon's military leader Brice Oligui Nguema will face seven challengers in elections set for 12 April in the West African ...

Gabon's General Brice Oligui Nguema has sought to carve out an image as a positive, empathetic leader, far from his military strongman profile that characterised his seizure of power. You're Hannibal, ...

On 9 February, Ali Bongo Ondimba celebrated his 66th birthday alone in his huge villa at La Sablière in Libreville, Gabon’s capital. Well, almost alone: his mother Joséphine Kama, known as Patience ...

General Bris Oliga Nguema, president of the transitional period of Gabon, read on national television in a statement saying that Ali ben Bongo Ondimba is free to move PRETORIA, September 7.

Oligui had pledged to hand power back to civilians in the oil-rich central African nation after an interim period following the ousting of president Ali Bongo Ondimba in August 2023. But a new ...

Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, who is interim president, led a 2023 military coup that toppled President Ali Bongo Ondimba, who many Gabonese accused of irresponsible governance and major ...

Oligui had pledged to hand power back to civilians in the oil-rich central African nation after an interim period following the ousting of president Ali Bongo Ondimba in August 2023. But a new ...