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The televised announcement came hours after the Central African nation’s president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, was declared to have been re-elected for a third term.

Gabon knows its oil won’t last forever, so officials are turning to the Central African nation’s rainforest for revenue — while also promising to preserve it.

, The huge Pandora Papers leak spearheaded by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists provides intriguing new details of the wealth of some of Africas most powerful and controversial politicians. These include Congo-Brazzavilles Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Kenyas Uhuru Kenyatta and Gabons Ali Ben Bongo. That they have enriched themselves and their families is well known in each country, but the Pandora Papers helps explain how.

Tax losses and illicit financial flows are growing a decade after a high-level African Union report calculated they were costing the continent over $60 billion a year , The leak of documents known as the Pandora Papers and published on 3 October showed that 35 current and former heads of state, three in Africa, along with over 330 public officials are affiliated with companies that use offshore tax havens. It comes as national treasuries around the world face a revenue crunch as they chart recov...

April 21, 2021 President Joseph Biden has invited five African presidents and 35 other world leaders to join him at the Leaders Summit on Climate on April 22-23. The African contingent—consisting of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) president Félix Tshisekedi, Gabonese president Ali Ben Bongo, Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta, Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, and South African president Cyril Ramaphosa—will likely press for financial support to undertake climate change mitigation and a...