The former prime minister of Gabon, who lost a presidential election on Saturday, criticized the outcome as opaque and unfree ...

After deposing Gabonese President Ali Bongo two years ago, Gen Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema was carried through the streets ...

He has accused Oligui, who led the Republican Guard in the Bongo years, of representing a continuity of the old system. Oligui served as patriarch Omar Bongo's former aide-de-camp before becoming ...

He had spent 10 years outside the country after being dismissed from the inner circle of the Bongo family, who until August 2023 had ruled Gabon for almost 56 years.

The small African nation of Gabon is voting on Saturday in its first executive elections since a military coup in 2023 ended the 50-year dynastic rule of the Bongo political family. Brice Clotaite ...

The military general previously served as aide-de-camp to Omar Bongo before he was posted overseas to the embassies in Morocco and Senegal. He thereafter returned to lead the elite Royal Guard ...

Nguema is widely tipped to win. Mr. Nguema served as an aide-de-camp to Gabon’s long-ruling autocrat, Omar Bongo, and was head of the Republican Guard under his son, Ali Bongo Ondimba ...

He has accused Nguema, who led the Republican Guard in the Bongo years, of representing a continuity of the old system. Nguema formerly served as an aide-de-camp to Omar Bongo before becoming ...

He considers himself the change the country needs, but his closeness to the ousted regime still attracts criticism from some. After 55 successive years under President Omar Bongo and his son Ali Bongo ...

After 55 successive years under President Omar Bongo and his son Ali Bongo, Gabonese people have told the BBC that all they have wanted is an end to the embezzlement, cronyism, indebtedness and ...