About Omar Bongo
Omar Bongo Ondimba was a Gabonese politician who was the second president of Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009. A member of the Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG), Bongo was promoted to key positions as a young official under Gabon's first President Léon M'ba in the 1960s, before being elected the second vice president in his own right in 1966. In 1967, after M'ba's death, he became the country's president.
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Awards & Honors
Order of the Equatorial Star
Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
Knight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
Gold Olympic Order
Order of Agostinho Neto
Grand Collar of the Order of Prince Henry
Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit
honorary doctor of the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
