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Ali Bongo Ondimba (born Alain-Bernard Bongo; 9 February 1959), [1] [2] also known as Ali Bongo and Ali Ben Bongo, [1] is a Gabonese former politician who was the third president of Gabon from 2009 to 2023. [3] [4] [5] He is a member of the Gabonese Democratic Party. He is the son of Omar Bongo, who was president of Gabon from
The president of the republic is elected for a presidential term of five (5) years, by universal and direct suffrage as per the 2023 Constitution amendement. [2] The president is renewable. [3] There was a two-term limit for the president in the Constitution of Gabon. This limit was lifted for Omar Bongo in 2003. [4]
At 8pm on August 30, 2009, TV+ lost its signal during a repeat airing of a 2005 interview with the deceased president Omar Bongo, who died earlier in the year. [2] On January 26, 2011, the National Communications Council suspended TV+ for a period of three months, announced by Godel Inanga on state television.
Gabon military claims to have taken control of country as gun fire heard ringing out in capital Libreville Gabon coup – live: Military says president Ali Bongo under house arrest after ...
A military coup thrust the Central African nation of Gabon into turmoil Wednesday, unseating the president – whose family had held power for more than half a century – just minutes after he ...
Senior military officers appeared on Gabon national television to announce a coup following the country's presidential election in the early hours of Wednesday, 30 August. Soldiers spoke on Gabon ...
He served as an aide-de-camp to President Omar Bongo until his death in 2009. He then served as a military attaché at the Gabonese embassies in Morocco and Senegal. [11] In October 2018, he was recalled to Gabon where he replaced President Ali Bongo's half-brother Colonel Frédéric Bongo at the head of the intelligence service of the ...
President pleads for support and calls for citizens to ‘make noise’ in video from his residence Gabon president Ali Bongo ‘under house arrest’ as military says it has seized power in coup ...