A team from the International Criminal Court (ICC) will visit Gabon next week to look into claims of post-election violence last year, the court prosecutor’s office announced Friday, in a move welcomed by rights activists. The ICC has yet to open a formal inquiry into the claims of violence made by defeated presidential candidate, opposition … Read more
A team from the International Criminal Court (ICC) will visit Gabon next week to look into claims of post-election violence last year, the court prosecutor’s office announced Friday, in a move welcomed by rights activists. The ICC has yet to open a formal inquiry into the claims of violence made by defeated presidential candidate, opposition … Read more
More than two weeks after the start of violence prompted by a contested presidential election in Gabon, the search for missing loved ones continues, sometimes with grisly results. Olivier’s eyes are haggard after his days of scouring Libreville ended in the cold room of a morgue. There, in a drawer, together — because of a … Read more
Libreville (AFP) – Gabon’s president Ali Bongo was set to be declared winner of last weekend’s contested election, electoral commission members said Thursday, in a result that risks inflaming tensions in the Central African nation. Bongo, whose father held onto power for four decades, sought relection after winning a first term in 2009 in a … Read more
Libreville (AFP) – Gabon’s president Ali Bongo was declared winner Thursday of contested weekend elections, extending half-a-century of rule by the Bongo family which sparked clashes in the Central African nation. Protesters shouting “Ali must go!” tried to storm the offices of the election commission shortly after authorities announced his re-election by a narrow majority. … Read more
Libreville (AFP) – Ali Bongo of Gabon, who has been declared the winner of a disputed election in the central African country, has spent more than half his 57 years in the corridors of power. On Wednesday, Interior Minister Pacome Moubelet-Boubeya said Bongo, head of state since 2009 after decades in government, had beaten career … Read more