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Omar Bongo Ondimba (born Albert-Bernard Bongo; 30 January 1935 – 8 June 2009) was a Gabonese politician who was the second president of Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009. Bongo was promoted to key positions as a young official under Gabon's first President Léon M'ba in the 1960s, before being elected the second vice-president in his ...
The second President of Gabon, Omar Bongo, died in Spain on 8 June 2009, after having suffered from colorectal cancer. A month of mourning [1] and state funeral, spanning 11 to 18 June, followed. After Bongo's death his coffin was flown from Barcelona to Libreville on 11 June.
The Bongo family is a Gabonese and Congolese political family of Teke ethnicity. [1] Three Bongo family members ( Omar Bongo , Ali Bongo , and Brice Oligui Nguema ) have been presidents of Gabon , ruling the country from 1967 until the present.
Pascaline Mferri Bongo Ondimba (born 10 April 1956 [1]) is a Gabonese politician. Under her father, President Omar Bongo , she was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1994 and Director of the Cabinet of the President from 1994 to 2009.
The son of a Teke mother and Fang military officer, [5] [3] Oligui was born in Haut-Ogooué Province, Gabon, which was regarded as a stronghold of the ruling Bongo family. [6] Via his mother, he is a cousin of former President Ali Bongo. [7] Oligui was mostly raised by his mother and her family in Haut-Ogooué, [6] [8] and studied at Omar Bongo ...
Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo OEE ONM (born 18 April 1955) is a Gabonaise lawyer who is the former romantic partner of Omar Bongo, the long-standing authoritarian ruler of Gabon. [1] She is the president of the Constitutional Court of Gabon (Cour Constitutionnelle de la Republique Gabonaise) since its foundation in 1991. [2] [3] [4]
PDG leader and incumbent president Omar Bongo was the only candidate in the presidential election, and was elected unopposed. [1] In the National Assembly election the PDG put forward a list of 70 candidates for the 70 seats in the expanded Assembly. [2] Voter turnout was allegedly 97.8%. [3]
Since independence from France in 1960, Gabon has primarily been ruled by the Bongo family starting with President Omar Bongo in 1967 [6] and, following his death in 2009, by his son Ali Bongo Ondimba. Ali Bongo was re-elected in an election in 2016 which prompted a failed coup attempt in 2019. [7]