Omar Bongo Ondimba

Omar Bongo Ondimba (December 30th 1935, Bongoville) is since 1967 the second president of the Gabonese République.

Biography

Born under the name of Albert-Bernard Bongo the December 30th 1935 in Lewai, now renamed Bongoville, in the province of the Haut-Ogooué. It made its primary and secondary studies with the Congo, then after its military service, it joined initially the French secret services then the entourage of Leon Mba future president of Gabon and worked as clerk of the stations.

After independence in 1960 he was his vice-president and arm-right before succeeding to him after its death in 1967. In 1968, it founds the Gabonese Democratic party base of the monopartism until in 1990.

It made assassinate Germain Mba in 1971 in Libreville, as Robert Luong which was the lover of his first wife, Marie-Joséphine Bongo (become Patience Dabany) in 1979 in France. Then it was the turn of Joseph Rendjambé in 1990 in Libreville, inter alia.

Into 1973, it is converted with the Islam and becomes El Hadj Omar Bongo . For some, this conversion is only one means of showing itself well countries of the Organization of the oil exporting countries, in majority Moslems, the Gabon being producer of Pétrole. In 1990, Bongo is thorough to organize a national conference at the conclusion which it accepts the restoration of the multi-party system. He leans the name of his father with his and thus becomes in 2004 Omar Bongo Ondimba.

Omar Bongo Ondimba during all her presidency (40 years in 2007) directs the country in a very direct way, monopartism or important multi-party system little.

Omar Bongo Ondimba was re-elected the November 27th 2005 with 79,18 % of the votes according to the official results. The opposition with at its head Pierre Mamboundou denounced massive frauds, noted at the time of the poll. Following the rejection of the official results by Pierre Mamboundou and his party the UPG, was held a popular rising which touched 6 provinces out of the 9 that account Gabon and, not being able more to withstand the pressure of the street, Bongo decided to assassinate Pierre MAMBOUNDOU on March 21st, 2006 but this one takes refuge with the embassy of the United States with Libreville. He is his principal opponent still today.

Used by the capacity, it decides has to make change the country into adopting the policy of the acts for Gabon. This policy which still presents some anomalies could and be supposed profit with the Gabonese population as a whole.

Anecdote

According to an article of the NewYork Times of the November 9th 2005, it would have poured, in 2003, 9 million US Dollars on the account of a company of Jack Abramoff, an American lobbyist, so that this one arranges to him a discussion with the president of the the United States George W. Bush. He declared a few days later that was a “coarse lie” and that he was going to carry felt sorry for. No result with this declaration.

His/her son, Ali Bongo Ondimba, is Minister for the Defense of the Gabon since 1999.

With the legislative elections of 2006, Omar Bongo Ondimba has a majority of almost 90 deputies to carry out the project for which he was elected in November 2005.

Omar Bongo renamed her town of Bongoville birth, and gave her name to a Gabonese university: the Omar Bongo university.

Nicolas Sarkozy met Omar Bongo at the time of the presidential campaign for according to him collecting the good councils of a man of experiment. , it also met Francois Bayrou like Jean-Marie Le Pen

Hardly elected official, the new French president called Omar Bongo to thank it for " its goods conseils" , then received it in the Elysium and ordered with all its government to come to greet the senior of the " friends of France". Two months later, the friendship between Nicolas Sarkozy and Omar Bongo are confirmed since it is Libreville that the French president chooses to close his first African round, on July 27th, 2007. It does not arrive the empty handeds, since it obtained, the previous week, an agreement ever seen of the Club of Paris which reduces from at least 15% the Gabonese debt.

See too

List of the current leaders

External bonds

Françafrique Cell: Omar Bongo " ami" France
the president of Gabon: Omar Bongo
Afropresse, Africa through the German press - Gabon, DW-World November 18th, 2005
Bongo will carry felt sorry for against the NewYork Times newspaper, BDP Gabon, November 13rd, 2005
Article of the site of information Rue89 " Bongo and France: forty years bad coups" , July 27th, 2007

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