Gabon

How the extended Bongo family ousted a president but maintained its control of the country.

A parliamentary inquiry into an alleged 2012 murder by British soldiers is causing a diplomatic crisis for the U.K. government.

The factors that have contributed to instability in the region.

Paris is complicit in the lack of social and democratic progress that prompted the coup.

Norway is paying Gabon to halt deforestation while continuing to promote its own polluting industries.

Gabonese opposition head Jean Ping wants international leaders to recognize him as his country's president—and can't say violence won't ensue if they don't.

And the allegation that we received funding to nominate him for the award is preposterous.

The Gabonese ambassador to the U.S. said the ballots have been burned but that a recount will take place -- just without observers.

Gabon’s president is an outlandishly corrupt autocrat who probably just stole an election. Why did a venerated Washington think tank offer to toast him at a black-tie gala?

As Gabon erupts in violence, the dark, twisted legacy tying this former colony to Paris is bubbling up to the surface.

In an exclusive interview with Foreign Policy, Gabonese President Ali Bongo Ondimba talked U.S. military support and his father's controversial legacy.

Young Cameroonian rappers are questioning why African leaders were quick to respond to the Charlie Hebdo attacks and not to the atrocities taking place on their own continent.