LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — Gabon will hold a presidential election on April 12, the council of ministers said. The West African ...

General Bris Oliga Nguema, president of the transitional period of Gabon, read on national television in a statement saying that Ali ben Bongo Ondimba is free to move PRETORIA, September 7.

One year after a bloodless military coup that overthrew Gabon's president Ali Bongo Ondimba ending 55 years of family rule, the fate of the former dynasty remains in limbo. Bongo had ruled the oil ...

The criterion disqualifies ousted ruler Ali Bongo Ondimba, who has a French-born wife, Sylvia Valentin Bongo Ondimba, and prevent his children from ever leading the country. Gabon's interim ...

The proposed constitution sets out a vision of a presidency with a maximum of two seven-year-terms, no prime minister and no dynastic transfer of power. It would also require presidential candidates ...