Gabon’s coup leaders say they have placed president Ali Bongo on house arrest after claiming to have seized control of the country following the incumbent’s disputed election win. Military leaders ...

LUANDA (Reuters) -Gabon's ousted former president Ali Bongo has flown to Angola with his wife and son, who had been freed almost two years after being detained following a coup, Angola's presidency ...

A group of high-ranking military officers in the West African nation of Gabon announced on public television Wednesday that they were "putting an end to the current regime" and annulling the results ...

FILE - President of Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, on Sept. 21, 2022 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) CAPE TOWN, South ...

Before Ali Bongo Ondimba was ousted in late August, he and his family had ruled over the oil-rich central African state for more than half a century. By Abdi Latif Dahir Hailed as a climate visionary, ...

The wife of Gabon’s deposed president Ali Bongo Ondimba, under house arrest since a coup in the central African country in late August, has been jailed, her lawyer said on Thursday. Sylvia Bongo ...

Last week The Capitalist reported on the controversial opening speaker at the FT’s upcoming Africa Summit: the Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema, who stands accused of kidnapping and torturing ...

Military officers in Gabon claim they have overthrown the country’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba and scrapped the country’s general elections moments after its results were announced Wednesday, making ...

Why did Ali Bongo Ondimba, in power since 2009, find himself abandoned from all sides? How did Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema manage to so easily topple a 50-year-old Gabonese dynasty on 30 August? From ...

Gabon President Ali Bongo has been sworn in for a second 7-year term following a disputed election that sparked deadly violence and uncertainty for the Central African nation. Bongo took his oath of ...

“Today I am President of the Gabonese Republic, I am the President of all Gabonese and I wish [the country] to come together,” Bongo said. As we previously reported, last month’s presidential election ...