Imagine a political career lasting longer than most Hollywood marriages. That’s the story of Omar Bongo’s journey from a small town to Africa’s longest-serving president. Our story starts with a young ...

While the Gabonese authorities say that their surprise release is temporary, the ousted former president and his family left the country for Angola. Several African heads of state have personally ...

N'DJAMENA, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Gabon's president-elect Ali Ben Bongo visited Chad on Saturday, his third stop on a central African tour intended to garner regional support after winning a vote that ...

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 ...

LIBREVILLE, June 18 (Reuters) - Above the entrance to the towering oil ministry on a sleek boulevard in Gabon's ocean-front capital Libreville hangs a huge banner that reads like a warning: "Oil will ...