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Struggling in Tahiti, Omar Bongo's former business partner seeks a comeback in Gabon

Dominique Auroy's interests in Gabon have taken a hit since Ali Bongo came to power, succeeding his late father, with whom Auroy was involved in various projects. Now the Tahiti-based entrepreneur sees hydropower as a way to get back into business in the country. [...]

Published on 22/12/2020 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 3 minutes

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African Development Bank
China Gezhouba Group Corp
Compagnie de Developpement des Energies Renouvelables
Delta Synergie
Dominique Auroy
Etienne Dieudonne Ngoubou
Fénéon Delabrière
FMO
Omar Bongo
Pascaline Bongo
Societe de Valorisation des Ordures Menageres du Gabon
Viticulture du Haut-Ogooué

Spotlight | Gabon
Creditor may seize TotalEnergies Gabon assets to recover unpaid flight bills

A few million dollars' worth of unpaid bills for trips on private jets in the last years of Omar Bongo's lengthy reign have ended up in the Swiss courts. Gabon has been ordered to cough up and the creditor has its sights set on the state's shares in the local TotalEnergies subsidiary.

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Brice Oligui Nguema during the high-level segment of the Sixth Session of UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi, 29 February 2024.

Gabon
Jérôme Andjoua and SGS to continue to secure Maurel & Prom infrastructure

Pertamina offshoot Maurel & Prom renewed in late June the contract of Société Gabonaise de Service (SGS) to provide security at its Port-Gentil and onshore facilities for another two years.

Subscribers only Defence, Energy 06.09.2022

Gabon
Strikes expose Bongo regime's shortcomings

Industrial action over back pay by two companies sheds harsh light on the government's failings.

Subscribers only Politics 05.02.2021

Gabon
Masen and IsBD scout out investors for Dominique Auroy's power plant

The Tahiti-based entrepreneur Dominique Auroy is pulling out all the stops to find new partners and get his project for a hydroelectric plant in Gabon back on track. He is being helped by Morocco's sustainable energy agency and Islamic Development Bank.

Subscribers only Energy, Business 14.01.2021

In Focus | Africa, France
Alexandre Benalla and Kamal Benali fall short of their wheeler-dealer heroes of yore

The businessman-adventurer has long been one of the main characters of the "Françafrique" era. André Guelfi, Pierre Falcone and Vincent Miclet helped to fashion the myth of the deal-maker who could be found in Africa's presidential palaces and the bars of Paris's luxury hotels, setting up multi-million-dollar deals with just a few phone calls.

Subscribers only Business 21.12.2020

Bernard Kouchner (left) and Kamal Benali (right) during Alpha Condé's presidential inauguration.

Congo
Congo Telecom employees threaten to strike over Omar Denis Jr Bongo's new optical fibre concession

The granting of an optical fibre concession to a company controlled by Omar Denis Jr Bongo, son of former Gabonese president Omar Bongo and grandson of Congolese president Denis Sassou Nguesso, has provoked a wave of protest among Congo Telecom employees.

Subscribers only Politics 15.12.2020

Gabon
Sylvia and Pascaline Bongo make up again in latest episode of palace soap opera

They fall out, make up and then fall out again... Now, the Gabonese president's sister and the first lady have patched up up their differences once again. But their reconciliation is having repercussions in the president's family and even on the functioning of the president's office.

Subscribers only Politics 28.10.2020

Congo, Ivory Coast
New lease of life for Marc Sendanki, discreet ex-middleman for Gunvor in West Africa

These days, Marc Honda Sendanki is giving the Russian firm Litasco the benefit of his extensive networks in the region.

Subscribers only Energy 12.10.2020

France, Gabon
Ali Bongo switches up diplomatic corps in EU

The Gabonese president has embarked on a series of sweeping changes within Gabon's embassies in the EU, with new ambassadors posted to Paris and Belin.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 08.09.2020

Gabon
Son follows father as head of internal intelligence service

New head of internal intelligence Bernard Gnamankala is the son of a general who headed the same service 30 years ago.

Subscribers only Politics 27.08.2020

Gabon
IFC and AfDB to stump up for Kinguélé aval dam

Having teamed up in the Asonha Energie consortium, France's Meridiam and the Fonds Gabonais d'Investissements Stratégiques are putting the finishing touches to the financial package for their 34 MW dam project.

Subscribers only Energy, Business 10.07.2020

Spotlight | Gabon
Ali and Pascaline Bongo - a rock and a hard place for Delta Synergie

The increasingly frosty relationship between the presidential couple - Ali Bongo and his wife Sylvia Bongo - and the president's elder sister Pascaline Bongo is complicating the management of the family's assets. Nearly a third of these assets are held [.

Subscribers only Politics 11.09.2019

Gabon
Ambitions rife at presidential palace

While the Bongo family prepares for the Gabonese president's media comeback, several figures are honing their image as the man for the future.

Subscribers only Politics 24.07.2019

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Fénéon Delabrière
FMO
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Pascaline Bongo
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From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

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Creditor may seize TotalEnergies Gabon assets to recover unpaid flight bills

Gabon
Jérôme Andjoua and SGS to continue to secure Maurel & Prom infrastructure

Gabon
Strikes expose Bongo regime's shortcomings

Gabon
Masen and IsBD scout out investors for Dominique Auroy's power plant

In Focus | Africa, France
Alexandre Benalla and Kamal Benali fall short of their wheeler-dealer heroes of yore

Congo
Congo Telecom employees threaten to strike over Omar Denis Jr Bongo's new optical fibre concession

Gabon
Sylvia and Pascaline Bongo make up again in latest episode of palace soap opera

Congo, Ivory Coast
New lease of life for Marc Sendanki, discreet ex-middleman for Gunvor in West Africa

France, Gabon
Ali Bongo switches up diplomatic corps in EU

Gabon
Son follows father as head of internal intelligence service

Gabon
IFC and AfDB to stump up for Kinguélé aval dam

Spotlight | Gabon
Ali and Pascaline Bongo - a rock and a hard place for Delta Synergie

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Congo Congo Telecom employees threaten to strike over Omar Denis Jr Bongo's new optical fibre concession

Gabon Sylvia and Pascaline Bongo make up again in latest episode of palace soap opera

Congo, Ivory Coast New lease of life for Marc Sendanki, discreet ex-middleman for Gunvor in West Africa

France, Gabon Ali Bongo switches up diplomatic corps in EU

Gabon Son follows father as head of internal intelligence service

Gabon IFC and AfDB to stump up for Kinguélé aval dam

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Gabon
Struggling in Tahiti, Omar Bongo's former business partner seeks a comeback in Gabon

Spotlight | Gabon
Creditor may seize TotalEnergies Gabon assets to recover unpaid flight bills

Gabon
Jérôme Andjoua and SGS to continue to secure Maurel & Prom infrastructure

Gabon
Strikes expose Bongo regime's shortcomings

Gabon
Masen and IsBD scout out investors for Dominique Auroy's power plant

In Focus | Africa, France
Alexandre Benalla and Kamal Benali fall short of their wheeler-dealer heroes of yore

Congo
Congo Telecom employees threaten to strike over Omar Denis Jr Bongo's new optical fibre concession

Gabon
Sylvia and Pascaline Bongo make up again in latest episode of palace soap opera

Congo, Ivory Coast
New lease of life for Marc Sendanki, discreet ex-middleman for Gunvor in West Africa

France, Gabon
Ali Bongo switches up diplomatic corps in EU

Gabon
Son follows father as head of internal intelligence service

Gabon
IFC and AfDB to stump up for Kinguélé aval dam

Spotlight | Gabon
Ali and Pascaline Bongo - a rock and a hard place for Delta Synergie

Gabon
Ambitions rife at presidential palace