Gabon’s Specialized Criminal Court slaps nine of Sylvia and Noureddin Bongo former aides with sentences ranging between two to fifteen years for embezzlement of public funds, corruption, and money ...

The Bongo family ruled Gabon for more than five decades. Ali Bongo was in power for 14 years before he was ousted. He had ...

LIBREVILLE, Gabon -- Gabon's former first lady and her son were sentenced in absentia by a special criminal court to 20 years ...

A Gabon court sentences ex–first lady Sylvia Bongo and her son to 20 years in prison for embezzlement and money laundering ...

A Gabon court sentenced the former first lady and son of the oil-rich country’s deposed leader Ali Bongo to 20 years in ...

The wife and son of former Gabonese president Ali Bongo, along with eleven of their close associates who held key positions ...

The coup leaders claimed the 26 August general election was not credible. They announced a cancellation of the election result, closure of all borders and dissolution of all state institutions ...

A Gabonese court on Wednesday sentenced former First Lady Sylvia Bongo, 62, and her son Noureddin Bongo, 33, to 20 years in ...

A Gabon court on Wednesday sentenced former first lady Sylvia Bongo and her son, Noureddin Bongo, to 20 years in prison after ...

Gabon's ex-first lady Sylvia Bongo and her son Noureddin were sentenced to 20 years in prison for embezzlement and money laundering. Accused of manipulating power, they were ordered to pay damages ...

Mutinous soldiers seized power in Gabon in the early hours of Wednesday and put President Ali Bongo under house arrest – moments after he was declared the winner in an election extending his family’s ...