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

Namibia's Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is set to take over as head of state on Friday, joining a still relatively small circle of women in Africa to have held the top job.

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 ...

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — Gabon's military leader announced Monday that he would run as a candidate in the oil-rich central ...

Many Gabonese first saw Oligui on television when, as head of the elite presidential guard, he was triumphantly carried aloft by his troops hours after veteran president Ali Bongo Ondimba was ...

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 ...