Gabon’s coup leaders say they have placed president Ali Bongo on house arrest after claiming to have seized control of the country following the incumbent’s disputed election win. Military leaders ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The former president of Gabon, who was ousted in a 2023 coup, has been allowed to leave the country and has flown to Angola with his family, the Angolan leader's office ...

Gabonese President Omar Bongo during the conference of the Non-Aligned Movement in Lima. Peru, 1975.Diego Goldberg / Sygma / Corbis As Gabon begins a month of mourning and condolences pour in for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2015 file photo, Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba leaves the Elysee Palace after a meeting ...

Gabon President Omar Bongo, whose nearly 42-year rule was a throwback to an era when Africa was ruled by “Big Men,” died Monday of cardiac arrest in a Spanish hospital. He was 73. Doctors at the ...

Military officers in oil-producing Gabon said they had seized power on Wednesday, placing President Ali Bongo under house arrest and naming a new leader after the Central African state's election body ...

LIBREVILLE, GabonLIBREVILLE, Gabon — Omar Bongo of Gabon, one of the world’s longest ruling heads of state, was buried Thursday in his native province after a weeklong state funeral that saw nearly ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, a month after a military coup in Niger, the military ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba in Gabon, an oil-rich former French colony in central Africa. A defaced billboard of Gabon ...

Gabon’s prime minister, Ali Bongo, has become the latest in a string of African leaders to be ousted by a military coup in recent years. Bongo, who had just won a third term in power, was ousted by a ...