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Ten years on, victims of violence that followed president Ali Bongo's disputed re-election in Gabon are still demanding truth and justice. Questions also remain over the possible involvement of French ...

Jean Ping has worked for the United Nations, diligently served Omar Bongo, the late dictator of Gabon, as a diplomat and later foreign affairs minister; served as a parliamentarian, and then as the ...

Violence has erupted in the Gabonese capital after President Ali Bongo was declared winner of a presidential election. Opposition leader Jean Ping said on Thursday that two people were killed and many ...

African union (AU) Commission chairman, Jean Ping dismissed media reports that he is not running for the chairmanship election due to be held this week end during the AU summit in Addis Ababa. South ...

Under a campaign poster promising to protect the people of Gabon from “need and fear,” a large patch of blood lay congealing on shiny white tiles. “He was a lad of around 25 whom they shot through the ...

Addis Ababa - Gabonese career diplomat Jean Ping is fighting tooth and nail to keep his job as African Union Commission chair since the challenge of a rival candidate from the continent's powerhouse ...

Jean Ping yatangaje mu kiganiro yahaye abanditsi n'abanyamakuru i Libreville, ko ariwe yegukanye intsinzi mu matora y'umukuru w'igihugu, asaba ko amajwi asubirwamwo guharurwa. Perezida Ali Bongo niwe ...

ADDIS ABABA — Jean Ping, the outgoing African Union Commission chairman, will hand over his position Monday at the organization’s headquarters in Addis Ababa. Ping was often criticized for the quality ...

Jean Ping was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly’s 59th session on 10 June 2004. At the time of his election, he was serving as Ministre d’Etat, Minister for Foreign Affairs, ...