I actually had to look up the phrase “like rats deserting a sinking ship” Tuesday morning. I have heard it used so often, but never understood its origins. How do rats know a ship is sinking?

After deposing Gabonese President Ali Bongo two years ago, Gen Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema was carried through the streets by his triumphant troops, who chanted 'Oligui, président! Oligui, président!

Brice Oligui Nguema was born in the south-eastern province of ... top brass and became an assistant to then-president Omar Bongo, Ali Bongo's father. It is said Oligui Nguema was extremely close ...

The family drama series "Nonsense" is set to premiere this Pahela Baishakh on the OTT platform Bongo. Directed by Rakesh Basu, the six-episode series features Zakia Bari Mamo, Intekhab Dinar ...

Incumbent leader Brice Oligui Nguema, who led a military coup in 2023, is expected to win comfortably. His main rival has hinted at potential electoral fraud.

He has accused Oligui, who led the Republican Guard in the Bongo years, of representing a continuity of the old system. Oligui served as patriarch Omar Bongo's former aide-de-camp before becoming ...

The military general previously served as aide-de-camp to Omar Bongo before he was posted overseas to the embassies in Morocco and Senegal. He thereafter returned to lead the elite Royal Guard ...

He is a former aide-de-camp for Ali Bongo's father Omar Bongo, who was president for more than 40 years until his death in 2009. "He sold us a dream," Libaski Moussavou, 34, told Reuters before ...

After 55 successive years under President Omar Bongo and his son Ali Bongo, Gabonese people have told the BBC that all they have wanted is an end to the embezzlement, cronyism, indebtedness and ...

Gabonese voters began casting ballots on Saturday in a presidential election with eight candidates that is widely expected to make junta chief Brice Oligui Nguema the oil-rich central African ...