Gabon Coup

Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema at a New Year’s ceremony in Libreville on 5 January 2023. © COM PR ID

Kingdom connections

Premium badgeHow Gabon’s Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema established ties in Morocco

Gabon’s new strongman who brought down Ali Bongo Ondimba was once a military attaché in Rabat where he forged strong personal ties.

FILE PHOTO: Gabonese military appear on television as they announce that they have seized power following President Ali Bongo Ondimba’s re-election, in this screengrab obtained by Reuters.

Watching, waiting

Premium badgeHow will Bongo’s fall affect Biya, Obiang and Sassou? While most of Gabon’s neighbouring leaders have not officially commented on the coup d’état, they are keeping a close eye on developments.
Henri-Claude Oyima, President of the Gabonese business federation and CEO of BGFIbank, is General Nguema’s cousin. (Photo ©BGFI)

prevailing uncertainty

Premium badgeBusiness as usual in Gabon, coup leaders tell investors, companies The day after the coup, the junta met with the Gabon business federation, headed by BGFIBank CEO Henri-Claude Oyima, General Oligui Nguema’s cousin.
Pascaline Bongo and her younger brother, Ali Bongo Ondimba. (© Montage JA: bp.blospot.com; Gabonese presidency)

ties that blind

Premium badgeFractured family: The Bongo siblings and Gabon’s turmoil Could Pascaline Bongo Ondimba be linked to the coup d’état? The favourite daughter stepped aside for her younger brother to become president, but thei...

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Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema at a New Year’s ceremony in Libreville on 5 January 2023. © COM PR ID

Kingdom connections

Premium badgeHow Gabon’s Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema established ties in Morocco Gabon’s new strongman who brought down Ali Bongo Ondimba was once a military attaché in Rabat where he forged strong personal ties.
FILE PHOTO: Gabonese military appear on television as they announce that they have seized power following President Ali Bongo Ondimba’s re-election, in this screengrab obtained by Reuters.

Watching, waiting

Premium badgeHow will Bongo’s fall affect Biya, Obiang and Sassou? While most of Gabon’s neighbouring leaders have not officially commented on the coup d’état, they are keeping a close eye on developments.
Henri-Claude Oyima, President of the Gabonese business federation and CEO of BGFIbank, is General Nguema’s cousin. (Photo ©BGFI)

prevailing uncertainty

Premium badgeBusiness as usual in Gabon, coup leaders tell investors, companies The day after the coup, the junta met with the Gabon business federation, headed by BGFIBank CEO Henri-Claude Oyima, General Oligui Nguema’s cousin.

Gabon Coup top stories

Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema at a New Year’s ceremony in Libreville on 5 January 2023. © COM PR ID

Kingdom connections

Premium badgeHow Gabon’s Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema established ties in Morocco Gabon’s new strongman who brought down Ali Bongo Ondimba was once a military attaché in Rabat where he forged strong personal ties.
FILE PHOTO: Gabonese military appear on television as they announce that they have seized power following President Ali Bongo Ondimba’s re-election, in this screengrab obtained by Reuters.

Watching, waiting

Premium badgeHow will Bongo’s fall affect Biya, Obiang and Sassou? While most of Gabon’s neighbouring leaders have not officially commented on the coup d’état, they are keeping a close eye on developments.
Henri-Claude Oyima, President of the Gabonese business federation and CEO of BGFIbank, is General Nguema’s cousin. (Photo ©BGFI)

prevailing uncertainty

Premium badgeBusiness as usual in Gabon, coup leaders tell investors, companies The day after the coup, the junta met with the Gabon business federation, headed by BGFIBank CEO Henri-Claude Oyima, General Oligui Nguema’s cousin.

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A torn campaign sign of Gabon’s now-deposed president, Ali Bongo Ondimba, in Libreville on 31 August 2023. (Photo ©AFP)

deep clean

Premium badgeIn Gabon, anti-Bongo coup or internal clan purge? Close friends and former staff members of Ali Bongo Ondimba were arrested on 30 August. Almost all have something in common: close ties with the forme...
Ali Bongo Ondimba and Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, July 21, 2023.

palace coup

Premium badgeWho is Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, the man who toppled Ali Bongo Ondimba? In Gabon, the Committee for the Transition and Restoration of Institutions (CTRI) announced that Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Chief Commander of the ...
Colonel Sadiba Koulibaly (L) and Colonel Mamady Doumbouya (R), coup leaders in Guinea. (©JA Montage: John Wessels/AFP/All rights reserved)

trend setting

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Elements of the Republican Guard wearing their green berets during the 17 August, 2023 parade. © COM PR

new management

Premium badgeAli Bongo Ondimba ‘under house arrest’, his son arrested… what we know about the coup in Gabon Soldiers announced on the night of 29-30 August that they have seized power in Gabon on behalf of the Comité pour la Transition and la Restauration de...
© This video grab taken from Gabon 24 shows Gabonese soldiers appearing on television on August 30, 2023 announcing they were “putting an end to the current regime” and the cancellation of an election that, according to official results, President Ali Bongo Ondimba won. – During the announcement, AFP journalists heard gunfire ring out in the Gabonese capital, Libreville. (Photo by – / Gabon 24 / AFP)

coup fever

Gabon officers announce toppling of government Gabon seems to be the latest African nation to suffer a coup d’etat.