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On Sylvia Bongo's birthday, first couple travel to the Maldives

Syvia Bongo and Ali Bongo flew to the Maldives last week to celebrate the first lady's 11 March birthday on the islands. On the way, the presidential couple stopped over in Dubai. [...]

Published on 16/03/2021 at 06:00 GMT

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Private jets, offshore fields, football, magazines: the presidential palace's untraceable holdings

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Gabonese President Ali Bongo getting off his plane during a visit to Beijing, 2018.

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The discreet new Côte d'Azur life of Ali Bongo's half-brother

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Paris law firm Betto recruits a former Addax executive close to the Bongos

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Mini-reshuffle fails to bury hatchet between Massassa and Obamba

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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.

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Noureddin Bongo regains control of Gabon's financial institutions

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The women behind the new balance of power

As a sign of the new balance of power in Libreville, the entourage of two of the country's leading women - first lady Sylvia Bongo and president of Gabon's constitutional court Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo - has come away with the lion share's of the new government positions.

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The Boeing 737 registering as P4-BBJ, frequently used by Sylvia Bongo.

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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 [.

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How Ali Bongo staged his comeback

Above and beyond the announcement of a government reshuffle, the purpose of the two speeches given by Ali Bongo on 8 June was to demonstrate that he was once again in full possession of his faculties, eight months after suffering [.

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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
On Sylvia Bongo's birthday, first couple travel to the Maldives

In Focus | Gabon
Private jets, offshore fields, football, magazines: the presidential palace's untraceable holdings

Gabon
The discreet new Côte d'Azur life of Ali Bongo's half-brother

Gabon
Paris law firm Betto recruits a former Addax executive close to the Bongos

Gabon
Mini-reshuffle fails to bury hatchet between Massassa and Obamba

Gabon
A second Bongo heir enters the presidency

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

Gabon
Noureddin Bongo regains control of Gabon's financial institutions

Gabon
The women behind the new balance of power

Gabon
The Bongo family's sky-high surprise

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

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