Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Sarkozy jeered at Bongo's funeral in Gabon...

French President Nicolas Sarkozy was jeered as he joined heads of state in the capital of Gabon, Libreville, for the funeral of President Omar Bongo.

A crowd booed the French leader as he visited the presidential palace to lay a wreath at Mr Bongo's coffin. 

Oil-rich Gabon kept close ties to Paris under Mr Bongo, but he was the subject of a French corruption inquiry in May. 

After more than four decades in office, he died last week in a Spanish clinic following a long illness. More...

See also:

  1. Is Bongo Ondimba, president of Gabon, milking his country?
  2. The murky world of Gabon's Omar Bongo...
  3. Swaziland, where the poor starve and the king is, well, king...
  4. A look at some dictators and their awesome excesses!

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