Talk:Omar Bongo

message: Would someone be so kind as to update the links in this article as most appear broken.  Thanks.
Mbolo 02:36, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Links/references

message: Please remove the trivia about T. Jagland refering to Mr. Bongo as "Bongo from Kongo" on national television in Norway. The trivia is insulting to Jagland, to Bongo and to Africans and Norweigans. It was not a kind of official statment at all, Jagland did only refer to his stab in the foreign department who joked to him about Bongo rhyming with Kongo, and he did it with a friendly laugh which all the participants in the show joined in with. At once the statement is taken out of this context, it gets political and may give ideas about norweigan foreign department laughs of african politicans and politics. That is not true, and Wikipedia should not spread such ideas, not even as a trivia. --Esalen 12:16, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

message: I have a question why is it that most of the informations that are found in your articles are false? because I am a family member and trust it is full of shit in here
:Could you explain what's false about it? Everyking 11:41, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faults 

message: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2646825.stm has some good info if anyone is looking to expand this stub.
The "early life" and "death" sections contradict where he was born. The prior states, "Bongoville" whereas the latter mentions, "Franceville".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.203.219.86 (talk) 05:39, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  More info 

message: http://www.african-geopolitics.org/show.aspx?ArticleId=3109 is a good counter view. It is also is a citiation for his view that Africa is not ready for democracy.
That's rubbish!84.134.66.67 (talk) 09:17, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not democratic 

message: Just a personal notice of mine, Omar Bongo refers to most of non-African countries as the North and African countries as the South (he's meaning hemispheres). Do most educated Africans like Omar Bongo use this language? Just curious.
:No, not all educated Africans do, some do not. Note that non-African academicians also quite often use "that language". / Ezeu 22:12, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  North and South 

message: Why does the current page sounds alot like a flyer from propaganda-r-us? arent this guy supposed to be a womanizer? read it in the papers some time ago...
I deleted the Conclusion, because it was so obviously non neutral. User:Mistico
The "Bongo was the Grand Chancellor of the International Parliament for Safety and Peace, an international organization with a volunteer diplomatic service."
this is a Bogus organization lead by an italian mafioso
I delete the whole User: antimafia  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.180.19.162 (talk) 20:05, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: --58.104.11.118 06:26, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why did he convert? 

message: Could someone add an infobox.--M3rrick 09:25, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox

message: The below content removed from the article has way too much propaganda to be NPOV. It should not be included in the article before it is NPOVed.Labongo 14:31, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: =====His close relation with France=====
In addition, beyond Africa, Omar Bongo has good relationship. Especially with France. Bongo knows that his place is due to the support of France. Since the army Bongo maintained good relationship with France. France is the first economic and social partner of Gabon. Bongo is a close friend of Jacques Chirac, the president of France. Being a colony of France, Gabon knows many resemblances in way of doing with France. That’s why 650 French soldiers  are permanently took up a position near the presidency at Libreville, and more than 10 000 French residents live in Gabon. France and Gabon are partner for life with Omar Bongo.
=====Bongo with the rest of the world=====
Nevertheless, Bongo tends to diversify his contacts. New close relation have started with some countries of Asia especially China. Bongo signed many contracts with China especially in the domain of building facilities and fishing. Bongo frequently received some personalities like Hu Jintao (President of China), George W. Bush (President of the U.S) and some personalities of the World Bank.
President Bongo is the Vice President of the International Parliament for Safety and Peace, an intergovernmental organization based in Italy (see and ).
became President of Gabon in 1967. He was just 31 and the world's youngest president at the time. THIS IS NOT TRUE, AS, AT LEAST, ETIENNE EYADEMA, PRESIDENT OF TOGO, WAS YOUNGER.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.126.164.166 (talk) 06:34, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bongo in Europe and in the rest of the world

message: Nevertheless, Bongo tends to diversify his contacts. New close relation have started with some countries of Asia especially China. Bongo signed many contracts with China especially in the domain of building facilities and fishing. Bongo frequently received some personalities like Hu Jintao (President of China), George W. Bush (President of the U.S) and some personalities of the World Bank.
President Bongo is the Vice President of the International Parliament for Safety and Peace, an intergovernmental organization based in Italy (see and ).
became President of Gabon in 1967. He was just 31 and the world's youngest president at the time. THIS IS NOT TRUE, AS, AT LEAST, ETIENNE EYADEMA, PRESIDENT OF TOGO, WAS YOUNGER.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.126.164.166 (talk) 06:34, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bongo with the rest of the world

message: "June 8th, 2009
Gabon’s president not dead, prime minister says
Posted: 05:57 AM ET
(CNN) — Gabon’s President Omar Bongo, Africa’s longest-serving ruler, is not dead, the country’s prime minister said Monday, contradicting reports from Gabonese and French media."
http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2009/06/08/gabons-president-not-dead-prime-minister-says/--12.186.52.140 (talk) 10:21, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Reuters is now reporting that President Bongo has passed away:   http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090608/wl_nm/us_spain_gabon_president_1  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.202.248.92 (talk) 15:13, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: So are the BBC. ITN has been notified. --candle•wicke 16:43, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Death

message: In the Personal Life section it says he took the name El Hadj Omar Bongo, but at the beginning of the article it has been linked to Hajji, which describes an "honorific title given to a Muslim person who has successfully completed the Hajj to Mecca".  If was just a change of name, the link to the title is misleading. Foo was here (talk) 20:34, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "El Hadj" 

message: After his death, Bongo was cited in a large French nespaper as being a member of the Freemasons. He is even described as having been the leader of the Grand Lodge of Gabon.  ADM (talk) 12:50, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Masonic membership

message: Reading the section concerning the style of Mr. Bongo's leadership it felt like reading an obituary peppered with some encyclopaedic content. Perhaps its only me but the style of this entry seems way too prosaic and lofty for wikipedia. MarkkuP (talk) 14:32, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style of this article 

message: The infobox gives the end of his presidency as 6 May 2009, which is when he delegated presidential powers to the Vice-President, but he continued to hold the title of President until his death on 8 June. Everyking (talk) 21:46, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: End of presidency

message: Are citation publishers linked such as if the London Times is the source should it in the citations be linked or italized?66.74.176.59 (talk) 15:55, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, IP 66+ – If the publisher is a newspaper, then it can be both linked to its Wikipedia article and be placed in italics.  Book publishers may be linked, but not placed in italics.  If several citations contain the same publisher's name, then links to their articles is not necessary and might be considered WP:OVERLINKING.  Hope this helps.  Joys! – Paine Ellsworth CLIMAX! 19:05, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation style of publishers ? 

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