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1 month ago |
businesslive.co.za | Gerauds Wilfried Obangome
Libreville — The wife and son of Gabon’s former president have been transferred from prison to house arrest, though it is unclear when they might stand trial for alleged financial crimes. Sylvia Bongo, 62, and Nourredin Bongo, 33, were taken into custody shortly after Ali Bongo was toppled in a military coup more than a year-and-a-half ago. They had most recently been held in basement cells in the presidential palace in Libreville, sources said.
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2 months ago |
marketscreener.com | Gerauds Wilfried Obangome |Ngouda Dione
(Reuters) -The commanding win of junta leader Brice Oligui Nguema in Gabon's presidential election over the weekend gives him a seven-year mandate to turn the page on more than half a century of father-and-son rule by the Bongo family. The 50-year-old - who ousted President Ali Bongo in a 2023 coup, then ran for office - will now have to deliver on pledges to diversify an oil-reliant economy and end corruption.
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2 months ago |
yahoo.com | Gerauds Wilfried Obangome |Ngouda Dione
By Gerauds Wilfried Obangome and Ngouda DioneLIBREVILLE (Reuters) -Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup in Gabon in August 2023, won Saturday's presidential election with 90.35% of votes cast, according to provisional results, the Central African country's interior minister said on Sunday. The result cements Nguema's grip on power 19 months after the coup ended more than half a century of rule by the Bongo family in Gabon, an oil producer with a population of around 2.5 million.
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2 months ago |
timeslive.co.za | Gerauds Wilfried Obangome
Gabon's coup leader Brice Oligui Nguema looked to cement his grip on power as the oil-producing Central African nation held a presidential election on Saturday that analysts expected to be a one-sided affair. Nineteen months after overthrowing President Ali Bongo, whose family ruled Gabon for more than half a century, Nguema, 50, has pitched himself as a change agent cracking down on the corrupt old guard.
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2 months ago |
terra.com.br | Gerauds Wilfried Obangome
O líder do golpe no Gabão, Brice Oligui Nguema, está tentando consolidar seu poder enquanto o país centro-africano produtor de petróleo realiza eleições presidenciais neste sábado, que analistas esperam que sejam unilaterais. Dezenove meses após derrubar o presidente Ali Bongo, cuja família governou o Gabão por mais de meio século, Nguema, de 50 anos, se apresentou como um agente de mudança reprimindo a velha guarda corrupta.
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Blaise Mombenga
Investigative Journalist at Journal du Cameroun.com
Blaise Mombenga primarily covers news in Libreville, Estuaire, Gabon and surrounding areas.
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