Hailed as a climate visionary, Gabon’s president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, was once welcomed to Buckingham Palace but was blindsided by this week’s coup. By Declan Walsh and Dionne Searcey Declan Walsh, the ...

If Pascaline Bongo Ondimba was hoping to stay out of the limelight when the Republican Guard and General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema deposed her brother, President Ali Bongo Ondimba, on 30 August, ...

Gabon’s prime minister, Ali Bongo, has become the latest in a string of African leaders to be ousted by a military coup in recent years. Bongo, who had just won a third term in power, was ousted by a ...