LIBREVILLE, Gabon – Angry protesters torched Gabon’s parliament Wednesday, August 31, after President Ali Bongo was declared winner of what he claimed was a “peaceful and transparent” election, but ...

THE picture in the fan-mag showed this gangly kid in jeans and a sweat shirt, his face contorted, mouth wide open, beating with both hands on a bongo set round his shoulder, over it the headline BONGO ...

Gabon's President Omar Bongo, the world's longest-serving president whose 42-year rule was a throwback to an era when Africa was ruled by "Big Men," died of cardiac arrest in a Spanish hospital on ...

Omar Bongo’s reign among living heads of government – 37 years – is second only to Cuba‘s Fidel Castro, who has led the communist country for nearly 46 years. In Africa, only Togo‘s late President ...