Gabon jails nine Bongo associates for embezzlement and corruption

Gabon’s Specialized Criminal Court delivered a landmark verdict on Tuesday: nine former collaborators of Sylvia and Noureddin Bongo were sentenced to two to fifteen years in prison for massive embezzlement of public funds, corruption, and money laundering.

This ruling comes just six days after Sylvia and Noureddin Bongo themselves were sentenced in absentia to twenty years of criminal imprisonment.

Calling it “a historic moment for…