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Gabon’s post-coup ruler has visited The Congo to improve the relations between the two neighbors and lobby for the easing of his country’s international isolation after a group of military officers overthrew Ali Bongo Ondimba whose family had ruled Gabon since 1967. General Brice Oligui Nguema, who met with Congolese President Denis Sassou Nguesso on […]
Gabon’s transition leader Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema is expected this Tuesday September 19 in neighboring Equatorial Guinea in a bid to ease tensions after Malabo was finger-pointed for supporting an alleged countercoup against Nguema who seized power on August 30. Nguema’s trip, his first since assuming officially power on September 04, aims at thawing […]
Ndong Sima, the Transitional Prime Minister of Gabon made his first foreign visit last week to attend the G77+China Conference in Havana, in Cuba. Ndong Sima represented Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, the leader of the transition in Gabon who toppled former leader on August 30 in a military coup, Gabon Review reports. The two-day G77+China […]
Rahul Dhir, Chief Executive Officer of London-based Tullow Oil has told on September 13 Bloomberg the military coup that took place late August in Gabon has not affected the company’s business operations. Tullow Oil Plc’s assets in the central African nation Gabon account for around a quarter of its crude production. Tullow Oil Plc produced […]
Raymond Ndong Sima, the transitional Premier of Gabon has told French media AFP that the central African country will need at least 24 months as transitional period for new elections after the Army seized power on August 30. Ndong Sima, a former Prime Minister under the regime of ousted leader Ali Bongo Odimba, was September […]
Gabon’s former President Ali Bongo, before being deposed on August 30, had given China the authorization to establish a military base on Mandji island, in the delta of the Ogooué river, in the Gulf of Guinea, Paris-based media Africa Intelligence and local media Gabon Review report. African Intelligence notes that Ali Bongo gave the verbal […]
Brice Oligui Nguema, President of the transition in Gabon and head of the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI), named Thursday Raymond Ndong Sima, a former Prime Minister, as the transitional Premier of the central African country. The 68-year old is not new to Gabonese. He submitted his bid for August 26 […]
The Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI) in Gabon Wednesday September 6 set free ousted leader Ali Bongo placed under house arrest since August 30. The permission came following a meeting between Bongo and Central Africa Republic (CAR) President, envoy of the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) Faustin Archange Touadera. […]
The appointment by the Guinea-Bissau’s president of two new officials responsible for his security — in a country accustomed to coups — are seen by experts and observers in the context of recent coups in Niger and Gabon and other nations in the Francophone Africa Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has appointed Generals Tomas Djassi […]
The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) has suspended Gabon until the return of the constitutional order, few days after a junta led by the head of the national guards Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema removed incumbent leader Ali Bongo Ondimba. The decision was made Monday September 4 during a meeting of the ECCAS leaders […]