German Gernot Rohr must wonder sometimes whether he is coaching the national football team of Gabon or France.A study of the venues where the Gabonese Panthers have played international friendlies ...

A military coup thrust the Central African nation of Gabon into turmoil Wednesday, unseating the president – whose family had held power for more than half a century – just minutes after he ...

The military leaders who staged a coup in Gabon have freed ousted president Ali Bongo Ondimba and he is now allowed to travel abroad, a junta spokesperson said Wednesday.

Gabon's coup marked the eighth to occur in West and Central Africa since 2020. It came about a month after a military junta in Niger ousted the West African nation's democratically elected government.

Ali Bongo Ondimba, left, the ousted president of Gabon, receiving Abdou Abarry of the United Nations office for central Africa, at his home in Libreville, in an image from state-run television.

On August 30th officers in Gabon, a petrostate of 2.4m people in central Africa, became the latest men in uniform to announce on grainy state television that they had taken over their country.

Gabon is an oil-rich country and one of France's most important allies in Africa. Nick Schifrin reports on what led to the coup and what it means for the region. Nick Schifrin: ...

Gabon, on the west coast of Africa has had few leaders since its independence from France in 1960, with Omar Bongo ruling as president for more than four decades until his death in 2009. During ...

A Gabonese squadron halts to salute a French colonel at one of France's last military bases in Africa which is now "shared" with the host nation and focused on training. Turning the base into a ...

A military coup thrust the Central African nation of Gabon into turmoil Wednesday, unseating the president – whose family had held power for more than half a century – just minutes after he ...