Review of African Political Economy - Vol. 26 No. 80 Presidential Election In Gabon

Abstract of Briefing

Title:	The Presidential Election In Gabon
Author:	William Tordoff and Ralph A Young
Location:	Vol.26 No.80 (June 1999), pp269-277

A presidential election was held on 6 December 1998 in Gabon, an oil- rich state in central Africa roughly half the size of France, the former colonial power, but with a tiny population (estimated at only 1.3 million). El Hadj Omar Bongo, Gabon's president since 1967, was a leader schooled by long experience in managing the conflicting requirements of power in an African 'oil emirate' ; at 63, he was facing re-election for the final term permitted under the 1991 constitution.

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