News Source: Uinta County News
| about 1 month ago
Ali Bongo will be sworn in as Gabon's president this week, succeeding his late father, after a top court upheld his victory in hotly disputed presidential polls. The oil- and timber-rich West African nation's Constitutional Court confirmed Bongo won...
News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 month ago
Gabon's constitutional court has upheld Ali Ben Bongo's win in the August presidential election. Nine opposition candidates challenged those results, alleging massive vote fraud. After recounting all of the results from more than 2,800 polling...
News Source: News 24
| about 1 month ago
Gabon's Constitutional Court says the son of the country's longtime dictator won the August 30 presidential elections that opposition candidates said were fraudulent. Marie Madeleine Mborantsuo, the president of the court, says Ali Bongo received...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| about 1 month ago
The court had studied 11 requests for August's election, which opponents claim was rigged, to be annulled. The court, which carried out a vote recount at the end of September, said Ali Bongo, the son of veteran leader Omar Bongo Ondimba who died in...
News Source: BBC
| about 1 month ago
Nine opposition candidates had called for the vote to be annulled, arguing that there was widespread fraud...There was violence in several cities after the result was first announced. Hunger strike The Constitutional Court's decision was read out on...
News Source: Kiev Post
| about 1 month ago
Gabon's Constitutional Court rejected on Monday challenges launched by the opposition to Ali Ben Bongo's victory in an August presidential election, paving the way for Ben Bongo to replace his father as president. Violence erupted in two of the oil-...