DIPLOMATIC TIMES STAFF AFP news agency says the Gabonese government has confirmed President Ali Bongo’s recent bout of ill health was the result of a stroke. Gabon’s President Ali Bongo has for the first time, since his hospitalisation in Saudi Arabia last month, appeared in
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES At least 53 persons were killed when suicide bombers and gunmen attacked a hotel last Friday in the Somalia capital city Mogadishu. Attacks were reported on the popular Sahafi Hotel, near the country’s criminal investigations department as two car
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES Gabonese President Ali Bongo is seriously ill but on the mend, his spokesman says, ending weeks of official silence on his condition, according to the BBC. Bongo is currently being treated in Saudi Arabia. According to media reports the
By Gary Raynaldo DIPLOMATIC TIMES New York – Paul Biya, an octogenarian who has ruled Cameroon for 36 years, has been sworn in as the Central African country’s President for a seventh term. The opposition accused the October 7 elections of being rigged in favor