Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba speaks during a trade conference in London in 2018. Chris Jackson/Getty Images The coup leaders ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The former president of Gabon, who was ousted in a 2023 coup, has been allowed to leave the country and has flown to Angola with his family, the Angolan leader's office ...

Gabon’s prime minister, Ali Bongo, has become the latest in a string of African leaders to be ousted by a military coup in recent years. Bongo, who had just won a third term in power, was ousted by a ...

On Wednesday, a month after a military coup in Niger, the military ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba in Gabon, an oil-rich former French colony in central Africa. A defaced billboard of Gabon ...

At the Martine Oulabou polling station in Libreville’s 2nd district – named after a former trade unionist killed by the police in 1992 – voters gathered early on the morning of 26 August 2023. Divided ...

Military officers in oil-producing Gabon said they had seized power on Wednesday, placing President Ali Bongo under house arrest and naming a new leader after the Central African state's election body ...

Gabon voted on Saturday for its first elected leader since a 2023 coup overthrew the Bongo dynasty, which had ruled Gabon for more than 55 years. The Bongo family has been accused of looting the ...

Gabonese President Omar Bongo during the conference of the Non-Aligned Movement in Lima. Peru, 1975.Diego Goldberg / Sygma / Corbis As Gabon begins a month of mourning and condolences pour in for ...

LIBREVILLE, GabonLIBREVILLE, Gabon — Omar Bongo of Gabon, one of the world’s longest ruling heads of state, was buried Thursday in his native province after a weeklong state funeral that saw nearly ...