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Article: Omar Bongo and his worldly possessions
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- New African
- Article date:
- July 1, 2009
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"[Francophone] Africa without France is like a car without a driver. But France without Africa is like a car without petrol" - Omar Bongo, president of Gabon, who died on 8 June after 42 years in power.
It speaks much for the lack of realism in Gabonese politics that even when the country's long-reigning president, Omar Bongo, died on 8 June after 42 years in power, the government he had left behind tried to conceal the death from the populace. In its desire to suppress news of Bongo's death, the government cut the country off from the internet. And two local publications - Ezombolo and Le Nganga - were banned. The government apparently feared that the free flow of information would impede ...
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... ... June 8, 2009. Ndong spoke after meeting with doctors treating the president, Omar Bongo and said he was "enormously surprised" by news reports from France that said Bongo had died. The premier read out a statement at the Barcelona clinic ...
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