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About Omar Bongo
Omar Bongo Ondimba was a Gabonese politician who was the second president of Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009. A member of the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), Bongo was promoted to key positions as a young official under Gabon's first President Léon M'ba in the 1960s, before being elected the second vice president in his own right in 1966. In 1967, after M'ba's death, he became the country's president.
Everything about Omar Bongo →- Occupation
- politician, military personnel, minister
- Position held
- President of Gabon, chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity, Vice President of Gabon, Prime Minister of Gabon
- Citizenship
- France, Gabon
- Born
- December 30, 1935
- Died
- June 8, 2009