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Gabon's National Communications Council has suspended at least six publications for what it says are ethical violations of journalism. Press freedom groups in West Africa and the United States have condemned the Gabon council's actions. Less than three...
Tags: Ali Bongo, Gabonese, Omar Bongo, West African, Libasse Hane, Gabon, Libreville, Elections in Gabon, Ali Bongo Ondimba, Martin Bongo, Politics, Bongo
Shopkeepers swept glass from streets littered with burned-out cars and hungry residents braved long lines to buy bread as Gabon inched back to normal Monday after several days of postelection violence. Evidence of the chaos was still ubiquitous in Port...
Tags: Gabonese, Agence France-Presse, Omar Bongo, Port Gentil, opposition leaders
Hundreds of people have fled Port Gentil, Gabon's second city, some in canoes, after three days of protests. Citizens left the city on Sunday, after clashes between security forces and protesters who are disputing Ali Ban Bongo's presidential election...
Tags: Gabonese, postelection violence, Port Gentil, Omar Bongo Ondimba, Ali Ben Bongo
Gabonese supermodel Gloria Mika has told the BBC she fears possible violence if elections in the West African nation are not free and fair. The 29-year-old model has stepped off the catwalk in Paris to head a campaign for a transparent vote on 30 August.
Tags: Omar Bongo Ondimba, Ali Bongo, Gabonese, Ali Ben Bongo
French President Nicolas Sarkozy overnight at the state funeral for Gabon's President Omar Bongo Ondimba which was attended by more than a dozen other African leaders. The issue of succession in the oil rich nation buzzed behind the scenes and Mr Sarkozy...
Tags: Omar Bongo Ondimba, Gabon Football Federation, Gabonese, Mr. Bongo, president omar, vice premier, late president, Nicolas Sarkozy, Libreville, Chinese
Gabon reopened its borders on Tuesday one day after announcing their closure following the death of President Omar Bongo Ondimba. "Following the death of the president of the republic, head of state and army, Omar Bongo Ondimba, the Gabonese Ministry...
Tags: Hajd Omar Bongo Ondimba, Gabonese
Gabon's security forces protected key administrative buildings in the capital Libreville on Tuesday, a day after the death of veteran President Omar Bongo, but the city was calm with many residents staying home. Soldiers guarded the prime minister's...
Tags: Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, Gabonese, Hugo Chávez, president omar, Spain, South Africa, Muammar al-Gaddafi, Constitutional Court, serving leaders, constitution court
China on Tuesday strongly criticized the honorary citizenship conferred Sunday on the Dalai Lama by the Paris city council, slamming it as a ''blatant provocation'' that disregarded the feelings of the Chinese people. Calling it an issue of major...
Tags: 14th Dalai Lama, China-Gabon, Chinalco, Aluminum Corporation of China, Paris, Tibetan, Gabonese, Bertrand Delanoe, Qin Gang, paris city
Africa's longest serving leader, Gabon president Omar Bongo Ondimba, has died aged 73, according to reports in France. Mr Bongo, who had ruled the former French colony in west Africa since 1967, had been in a clinic in Barcelona, Spain for a medical check-up...
Tags: Omar Bongo Ondimba, Gabonais, Republic of Gabon, Gabonese, Gabon Confirms Death, Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba, presidency omar, Mr. Bongo, French, prime minister
The move comes after a Bordeaux court ordered President Bongo to return a payment made to him to release a jailed French businessman, Rene Cardona. He was freed after his son paid more than $580,000 (£400,000) into 72-year-old Mr Bongo's account, a court...
Tags: Omar Bongo, Mr Bongo, French, Gabonese