Spotlight | Gabon
Oligui Nguema launches post-referendum battle for control of BGFIBank

Palace Intrigues
Andry Rajoelina, Emmanuel Macron, Pascaline Bongo, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Denis Sassou-Nguesso

Intrigues big and small – every Thursday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

MadagascarWill Macron attend Rajoelina's Indian Ocean Commission summit?

GabonPascaline Bongo and Oligui Nguema's tête-à-tête

Republic of CongoSassou's daughter sets new wedding date

Congo, Gabon
Delta Synergie audit: Denis Sassou-Nguesso wary of Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema's intentions

The announcement in March by the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions of the launch of an audit of Delta Synergie, the family holding company of the Bongo clan, is continuing to cause concern in Brazzaville.

Palace Intrigues
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Pascaline Bongo, Patrick Achi

Intrigues big and small: every Thursday, Africa Intelligence takes a peek into the corridors of power in Africa and beyond.

GabonGeneral Oligui loyal to Omar Bongo's favourite Parisian hotel

Equatorial GuineaObiang to visit Paris without meeting Macron

GabonPascaline Bongo's US exile

Ivory CoastEx-PM Patrick Achi ditches French passport

Congo
Édith Lucie Bongo Ondimba memorial brings Libreville and Brazzaville closer together

Every year since her death in 2009, Congo's President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has organised a ceremony to honour his late daughter, the former First Lady of Gabon. Several heads of state, including Gabon's Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema are expected to attend this year's event.

Gabon
General Oligui to scrutinise debts of Ali Bongo era

With the assistance of military intelligence and the BGFI bank, a new task force is to conduct an inventory of the state's debts as well as looking into transactions conducted by advisers to Noureddin Bongo.

Congo
Omar-Denis Junior Bongo wants to get back in business via broadband

ODJB, who is also the half-brother of ousted Gabonese leader Ali Bongo, is getting his company Yao Corp back off the ground. With two new business partners, he has eyes on a major broadband project in the country.