• April 24, 2025

Cameroon sugarcane strike turns violent over wages

Over 150 hectares of sugarcane fields have been destroyed in Cameroon due to violent clashes between workers at the Société Sucrière du Cameroun (SOSUCAM) and police. The unrest, which erupted earlier …

FIFA suspends Congolese Football Federation

FIFA has announced the immediate suspension of the Congolese Football Federation (FECOFOOT), following escalating tensions between the Ministry of Sports and the football body. The dispute, which has been ongoing for …

Judge halts Trump’s effort to dismantle USAID

A federal judge has delivered a major blow to President Donald Trump and his ally, billionaire Elon Musk, halting plans to pull thousands of staffers from the U.S. Agency for International …

Ali Bongo Ondimba’s son, Noureddin Bongo Valentin, and several members of the deposed Gabonese president’s cabinet were jailed and charged on Tuesday with “high treason” and “active corruption”, the Libreville prosecutor told our journalist on Wednesday.

Ali Bongo’s eldest son, former presidential spokesman Jessye Ella Ekogha, and four other people were “indicted on Tuesday and remanded in custody”, said André-Patrick Roponat, the public prosecutor in Libreville, Gabon’s capital.

On 30 August, less than an hour after the announcement in the middle of the night of the re-election of Ali Bongo, in power since 2009 and accused of massive fraud, the military, led by General Brice Oligui Nguema, overthrew him, accusing his regime in particular of “massive misappropriation” of public funds.

On the very day of the coup, the military arrested one of the sons of the deposed head of state, as well as five other young senior officials from the office of the former president and his wife Sylvia Bongo Valentin. Searches of their homes, broadcast extensively on state television, showed them at the feet of trunks, suitcases and bags overflowing with bundles of banknotes.

Mrs Bongo Valentin is under house arrest in Libreville “for her protection”, according to the presidency, and “arbitrarily detained” according to her lawyers.

Ali Bongo, who was initially placed under house arrest in Libreville for several days after the putsch, is now “free to move about” and has the possibility of “travelling abroad”, General Oligui announced on 6 September.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *