Gabon’s military leader is sworn in as head of state after last week’s coup Soldiers hold Gabonese Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema aloft Wednesday in Libreville, Gabon’s capital.

A defaced billboard of Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba is seen on an empty street of Libreville, Gabon, Wednesday Aug. 30, 2023. Mutinous soldiers speaking on state television announced that ...

LIBREVILLE - Gabon holds a presidential election on Saturday, the first since a 2023 coup ended the Bongo family's 56-year dynasty and which the country's new military rulers hope will legitimise ...

LIBREVILLE, Gabon — Mutinous soldiers in Gabon proclaimed their republican guard chief as the country’s leader Wednesday after placing newly reelected President Ali Bongo Ondimba under house ...

Gabon’s President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema received on Friday Mohammed Bouzoubaa, the CEO of Moroccan infrastructure ...

A conservation group says it has photographic evidence of the presence of a female lion in a national park in northeastern ...

Gabon coup leader General Brice Oligui Nguema is sworn in as interim president during his swearing-in ceremony, in Libreville, Gabon, September 4, 2023. REUTERS/Gerauds Wilfried Obangome Purchase ...

Libreville — Gabon's foreign minister Michael Moussa Adamo died Friday after suffering a heart attack during a cabinet meeting, the government and a presidential source said. Moussa Adamo, 62 ...

A new report from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) lists Libreville, Gabon, as the world’s fourth most expensive city, tied with Hong Kong and ahead of Paris, London, and New York.

Ali Bongo Ondimba, left, the ousted president of Gabon, receiving Abdou Abarry of the United Nations office for central Africa, at his home in Libreville, in an image from state-run television ...

When President Leon Mba of Gabon was toppled by the military in 1964, then-French President Charles de Gaulle sprang into action and immediately sent French troops to restore Mba to power.

LIBREVILLE, Gabon — An attempted military coup was thwarted in oil-rich Gabon after two plotters were killed and other army officers were arrested, the government said. Authorities regained ...