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Gabon’s strongman president, Ali Bongo, is barely clinging to power after contested elections, a stroke and a coup attempt. The Bongo family has run this stable central African nation for 52 years.

The 60-year-old attends commemorations in Libreville on eve of Gabon’s anniversary of independence from France.

Ali Bongo suffered a stroke 14 months ago during a visit to Saudi Arabia and has rarely been seen in public since.

Elections

Elections

A major commitment to ending and reversing deforestation at COP26 will need more funding, transparent monitoring and tough regulation of businesses and financiers ...

The so-called Pandora dossier included the suspected offshore activities of a number of high-ranking politicians and business elites.

Gabon's new environment minister, Lee White, a British-born conservationist, has vowed to fight illegal logging by strengthening governance of forests after a national scandal in which about 350 containers of rare kevazingo wood went missing.

BGFIBank allegedly played a central role in a years-long scam that allowed former DRC leader Joseph Kabila’s family and close associates to launder $243-million in public and suspect funds

Faith Birol says ‘big step forward’ is possible only if all commitments are implemented in full