Omar Bongo Quotes


It is not right to associate the fight against international terrorist networks with an imaginary crusade against Islam.


Citations

Bongo, Omar. "I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!" African Geopolitics, no. 5, OR.IMA International, 2002.

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Omar Bongo
Omar Bongo
  • Born: December 30, 1935
  • Died: June 8, 2009
  • Nationality: Gabonese
  • Profession: Statesman

El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba was a Gabonese politician who was the second President of Gabon for 42 years, from 1967 until his death in 2009. Omar Bongo was promoted to key positions as a young official under Gabon's first President Léon M'ba in the 1960s, before being elected Vice-President in his own right in 1966. In 1967, he succeeded M'ba to become the second Gabon President, upon the latter's death.