Former Gabon leader Ali Bongo Ondimba and his family have been released from detention and arrived in Angola’s capital as confirmed by the Angolan presidency on May 16, 2025. Bongo was ousted in a ...

Military officers in Gabon have declared they were seizing power from President Ali Bongo Ondimba in a stunning coup, threatening the family’s half-century rule over the central African nation. Men in ...

FILE - President of Gabon Ali Bongo Ondimba addresses the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, on Sept. 21, 2022 at U.N. headquarters. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File) CAPE TOWN, South ...

The condition of the deposed president was not immediately clear. LONDON -- Gabon's ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba has been released from house arrest a week after a group of mutinous soldiers ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — The leader of the military coup in Gabon last week has been sworn in as the interim president of the Central African country, while the deposed former president remains detained at ...

The military leaders who staged a coup in Gabon have freed ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba and he is now allowed to travel abroad, a junta spokesperson said Wednesday. Bongo has reportedly been ...

Gabon former leader Ali Bongo Ondimba and his family have been released from detention and arrived in Angola's capital, Luanda said Friday. "Following the initiatives made by the President of the ...

Before Ali Bongo Ondimba was ousted in late August, he and his family had ruled over the oil-rich central African state for more than half a century. By Abdi Latif Dahir Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya ...

LAGOS, Nigeria — A group of military officers in Gabon has taken over the government and arrested President Ali Bongo Ondimba, moments after the election body announced that Bongo had won a ...

The wife of Gabon's ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba has been charged with "money laundering" and other offences, the public prosecutor said Friday, a month after her husband was toppled in a coup.

After assuming power in 2009, notably by sidelining his sister Pascaline, Ali Bongo Ondimba tried to impose his personal method of governing by delegating power to a right-hand man. We look back at ...