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By Yves Laurent Goma and Rukmini Callimachi / The Bulletin
June 9, 2009
LIBREVILLE, Gabon — Omar Bongo, the world’s longest-serving president whose 42-year rule of Gabon was a throwback to an era when Africa was ruled by “Big Men,” died Monday. He was 73.
The government responded to Bongo’s death at a hospital in....
