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President Omar Bongo
President Omar Bongo is the head of state for Gabon. Research and learn about Gabon at this community portal.
Via the Guardian, Omar Bongo, the President of Gabon, is the world’s longest-serving leader that isn’t a monarch (good thing Fidel Castro stepped down, otherwise, the race would still be on). How does one maintain oneself in power for over 40 years? Well, mostly through patronage and corruption. And a great deal of self-aggrandizing megalomania:
“There are many ways of measuring Omar Bongo’s rule. You could count the monuments: the Omar Bongo Triumphal Boulevard, the Senate Palace Omar Bongo...
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A mansion worth £15m in one of Paris’s most elegant districts has become the
latest of 33 luxury properties bought in France by President Omar Bongo
Ondimba of Gabon, the world’s longest-serving leader, and his family, it was
alleged last week.
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... a presidential election since 1992, and Gabon, whose president Omar Bongo seized power in a 1967 coup and who is the continent’s longest-serving leader. ...
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By Antoine Lawson LIBREVILLE, December 14 (Reuters) - Gabon’s President Omar Bongo, now in his seventies, came to power in 1967 as major oil finds were ...
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Veteran African leader and Gabon President Omar Bongo told journalists at an African Union summit on Monday that Robert Mugabe "is president" of Zimbabwe, ...
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... a presidential election since 1992, and Gabon, where President Omar Bongo seized power in a 1967 coup and now reigns as Africa's longest-serving leader. ...
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Earlier in the day, George Charramba had said Zimbabwe had the support of Ethiopia and Gabon, whose president Omar Bongo is the longest-serving on the ...
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President Omar Bongo of Gabon, who has held power for 41 years and won a series of widely criticised elections, gave his public backing for Mr Mugabe as ...
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President Omar Bongo of Gabon (I am not making him up) seems to think that Mugabe is only doing what comes naturally. Bongo has secured himself in power for ...
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While many African leaders did not publicly speak out on the legitimacy of Mugabe during the summit, the continent’s longest serving president Omar Bongo of ...
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Instead President Omar Bongo of Gabon called Mugabe a "hero". To understand where Bongo's coming from, it's necessary to grasp that for many African leaders ...
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