Prior to the April 12 election, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema had limited influence over the Bongo family's affairs. His rise to power was marked by the August 2023 coup, which led to the ousting of ...

LIBREVILLE, Gabon (AP) — Gen. Brice Oligui Nguema was sworn in as the fourth president of the Republic of Gabon on Saturday, ...

Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, Gabon’s interim president who staged a 2023 coup that ended a decades long political ...

Little more than 19 months after the bloodless coup that brought an end to more than five decades of rule by the Bongo family ...

Gabon’s constitutional court has confirmed that Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema — he's Gabon’s interim president who staged ...

In Gabon, General Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema has officially taken office as president, following a landslide victory in the ...

Ali Bongo Ondimba, who was deposed in 2023. With that coup, Mr. Nguema ended the run of one of Africa’s longest-ruling families. Omar Bongo held power for 41 years, and his son held office for 14.

The interim president, Gen. Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, led the coup that toppled President Ali Bongo Ondimba, who many Gabonese accused of irresponsible governance. Bongo was placed in house ...

Gabon's Brice Oligui Nguema won 94.85 percent of the vote, according to final results released on Friday, confirming the junta chief's landslide election as the central African country's president.

However, following his death in 2009, his son Ali Bongo Ondimba succeeded him amid allegations of electoral fraud and deepening corruption. Despite protests and calls for reform, the Bongo family ...

Oligui Nguema, the former head of the country’s Republican Guard, toppled President Ali Bongo Ondimba nearly two years ago. He hopes to consolidate his grip on power for a seven-year term in office.