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South Africa: Tell the Truth About Bongo
Business Day, 11 June 2009
THE South African government’s response to the death of Gabon’s Omar Bongo Ondimba, the world’s longest-serving head of state, is disturbingly familiar —… Read more »
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Gabon: Omar Bongo (1935-2009) And Power - Till Death Part Their Ways
Daily Trust, 10 June 2009
The youngest in a family of twelve children, Bongo was born on 30 December 1935 in Lewai, a town of the Haut-Ogooué province in southeastern Gabon near the border with the… Read more »
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Gabon: Bongo's Palace Makes White House Look Quaint
Fahamu, 11 June 2009
The death of Gabonese President Omar Bongo and his family's stranglehold on the country, one Malawian's sense of national pride, the ubiquity of mobile phones in Africa and South… Read more »
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Zambia: Banda Mourns Omar Bongo
Times of Zambia, 11 June 2009
PRESIDENT Rupiah Banda has sent a message of condolences to the government and people of Gabon on the death of President Omar Bongo who died in Spain after an illness. Read more »
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Africa: Omar Bongo's Demise Should Awaken Continent's Tyrants
New Times, 10 June 2009
The world's longest serving President (after last year's resignation of Cuba's Fidel Castro) Omar Bongo has gone to meet his creator. Mother nature that comes in the form of death… Read more »
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South Africa: Zuma Extends Condolences After Death of Gabon President
BuaNews, 9 June 2009
South African President Jacob Zuma has extended condolences to the government and the people of Gabon following the passing of the Gabonese President, El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba. Read more »
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Angola: Head of State Regrets President Omar Bongo's Death
ANGOP, 9 June 2009
The Angolan Head of State, José Eduardo dos Santos, expressed Tuesday through a communiqué made available to ANGOP his condolences and feelings of solidarity to the… Read more »
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Gabon: President Obama's Statement on Death of Gabon's President Bongo
America.gov, 8 June 2009
Statement by the President on the death of President Bongo of Gabon Read more »