The African nation of Gabon is voting in its first executive elections since a military coup in 2023 ended the 50-year dynastic rule of the Bongo political family. Polls opened in the country at ...

Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a coup in Gabon ending decades of Bongo family rule and swept the election last month with nearly 95 percent of the vote, has been sworn in as the country’s president.

The family's release comes after Angolan President João Lourenço, who currently heads the African Union, visited Libreville ...

Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema has been sworn in as the fourth president of Gabon, marking the end of a nearly two-year political transition following the 2023 military coup.

Almost two years since the military coup d’état, Gabon has restored civilian rule, albeit under the leadership of a former ...

Ali Bongo, who was ousted from the presidency in a coup in 2023, has arrived in Angola with his family. Their release is the ...

Former president Ali Bongo and his family have arrived in Luanda, the Angolan capital, after they were released by the ...

Sylvia and Nourredin Bongo, relatives of Gabon's ex-president, are now under house arrest amid allegations of financial ...

The election marked the end of Gabon’s post-coup transitional period and presents a unique opportunity for the new administration to engineer socio-political and economic renewal. The 2025 turnout of ...

The tiny island of Mbanie measures just 30 hectares but has been at the center of a territorial dispute between Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. The world court has found in favor of the latter.

According to the Bongo family’s lawyer, François Zimeray, their release was a result of “long-term efforts both from judicial ...