Name Pascaline Ondimba | Nieces Malika Bongo Ondimba | |
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Siblings Ali Bongo Ondimba, Albertine Amissa Bongo Parents Omar Bongo, Louise Mouyabi Moukala Grandparents Jeanne Ebori, Basile Ondimba Similar People Ali Bongo Ondimba, Omar Bongo, Edith Lucie Bongo, Paul Toungui, Sylvia Bongo Ondimba | ||
Pascaline Mferri Bongo Ondimba (born 10 April 1956) is a Gabonese politician. Under her father, President Omar Bongo, she was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 1994 and Director of the Cabinet of the President from 1994 to 2009.
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- Background and political career
- Personal life
- References
Mlle pascaline bongo ondimba nos m res vous r pondent
Background and political career
Born at Franceville, Gabon, in 1956, Pascaline Bongo is the eldest daughter of Omar Bongo and Louise Mouyabi Moukala.
Pascaline Bongo was appointed as Personal Adviser to the President of the Republic in 1987 and entered the government as Minister of Foreign Affairs in June 1991. President Bongo had entrusted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to close relatives since 1981. Pascaline's immediate predecessor in that post was her half-brother Ali Bongo, who was several years younger than Pascaline and had been rendered ineligible for a ministerial post by a constitutional age requirement. In her first address to the United Nations later in 1991, she praised the expulsion of Iraqi forces from Kuwait and expressed concern over violence in South Africa. She welcomed reforms in South Africa, but also stressed that further steps were needed to fully eliminate the apartheid system. Noting the collapse of socialism in the Warsaw Pact countries, she said that the world was witnessing rapid change, but she emphasized Gabon's view that the economic gulf between developed and developing countries—the global "north" and "south"—was "the real problem".
Pascaline Bongo remained Minister of Foreign Affairs until March 1994, when President Bongo appointed Jean Ping to replace her. He appointed Pascaline as Director of the Presidential Cabinet at that time.
Following her father's death in June 2009, her half-brother Ali was elected President; immediately after taking office, Ali moved Pascaline from her post as Director of the Presidential Cabinet to the post of High Personal Representative of the Head of State on 17 October 2009. In the years that followed, Pascaline and Ali reportedly had a contentious relationship.
Personal life
Pascaline Bongo dated singer Bob Marley in 1980–81, and talked about the relationship in the documentary film Marley (2012).
During the late 1980s and early 1990s, Pascaline Bongo was in a relationship with Jean Ping, a fellow high-ranking official, with whom she had two children. Subsequently, she had another child with a different partner. Despite their relationship, Ping, who was already married, was not prepared to leave his wife. In 1995, Bongo went on to marry Paul Toungui, a distinguished member of the government