Gabonese opposition leader Jean Ping has vowed not to abandon his pursuit of presidency soon after the Constitutional Court upheld the narrow victory of incumbent President Ali Bongo in last month’s presidential election and dismissed Ping’s appeal.
20120826 AFP Gabon's outlawed National Union (UN) opposition party on Saturday held a rally of 1,500 people demanding a national conference to call for sweeping reforms.
20120821 AFP The public prosecutor for the Gabonese capital Libreville vowed Monday that the country's main opposition leader, Andre Mba Obame, would be arrested after a violent protest last week.
20120818 AFP Tensions in Gabon's capital Libreville simmered Friday as pro-government television channels accused a dissolved opposition party of having paid youths to stir up violent clashes with police.
20120814 AFP Hundreds of supporters of ex-Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo protested Monday in The Hague where the former west African leader is awaiting an International Criminal Court hearing.
20120814 AFP Gabon's interior ministry on Monday accused opposition leader and presidential claimant Andre Mba Obame of seeking to destabilise the central African country with calls for "insurrection and civil disobedience".
20120812 AFP Gabon's main opposition leader Andre Mba Obame arrived in Libreville after 14 months in France, saying the International Criminal Court would look into a 2009 "massacre" at Port-Gentil.
20120812 AFP Gabon's main opposition leader Andre Mba Obame, who claimed to have won the last presidential election, arrived in Libreville Saturday from 14 months in France, welcomed back by hundreds of supporters.
20120811 AFP Gabon said Friday it has banned gatherings by supporters of leading opposition figure Andre Mba Obame to mark his return to the country after 14 months abroad for health reasons.
20120805 AFP Two opposition newspapers have been suspended for six months in Gabon for not respecting "the institutions of the republic", Gabon's National Communications Council (CNC) said Saturday.
20120609 AFP Two leading Gabonese activists and some 40 others were arrested as they tried to hold a "Counter-Forum of Indignants" alongside a meeting on African development opening Friday in Libreville.
20120317 AFP Students demanding the payment of scholarships funds and police clashed in the Gabon capital Libreville on Thursday, leaving three people wounded, state television reported.
20120228 AFP Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba named Raymond Ndong Sima as the country's new prime minister following a resounding victory for the ruling party in general elections amid an opposition boycott.
20120214 AFP Gabonese Prime Minister Paul Biyoghe Mba resigned Monday as required by the constitution following elections that handed his party a resounding victory amid an opposition boycott.
20120206 AFP Gabon's opposition leader Mike Jocktane Sunday said police tried to detain him as he was driving through Libreville, adding that his driver managed to lose his pursuers.
20120205 AFP History may be knocking on Gabon's door but coach Gernot Rohr was the epitome of calm on the eve of his team's quarter-final with Mali here on Saturday.
20120128 AFP Leaders of the opposition in Gabon claimed Friday that the country had no more functioning parliament because the constitutional mandates of lawmakers expired on January 24.
20111225 AFP Several hundred supporters of ex-Ivory Coast president Laurent Gbagbo protested Saturday outside the International Criminal Court (ICC) prison where he is spending Christmas behind bars.
20111221 AFP Gabon's opposition parties that boycotted the December 17 legislative election warned Tuesday they were ruling nothing out as they mulled their reaction to the governing party's landslide.
20111220 AFP Gabon's ruling party claimed Monday it had won 114 out of parliament's 120 seats in a legislative election largely boycotted by the opposition but given a clean bill of health by observers.
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