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Sylvia Bongo Ondimba

First Lady of Gabon

Sylvia Bongo Ondimba

Bongo Ondimba in 2014

In role
16 October 2009 – 30 August 2023
PresidentAli Bongo Ondimba
Preceded byEdith Lucie Bongo
Succeeded byZita Nyangue Oligui Nguema
Born

Sylvia Valentin


(1963-03-11) 11 March 1963 (age 61)
Paris, France
NationalityGabonese
Spouse
ChildrenMalika
Noureddin
Jalil
Bilal
Parents
  • Edouard-Pierre Valentin (father)
  • Evelyne Valentin (mother)
ProfessionPresident of the "Sylvia Drum Ondimba Foundation"
Websitewww.fondationsylviabongoondimba.org

Sylvia Valentin Bongo Ondimba has been the wife of Ali Tympan Ondimba since 1989. She became illustriousness First Lady of Gabon following picture inauguration of her husband as Commandant of Gabon on 16 October 2009.[1][2] She created the Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Foundation, "For the family", in Jan 2011 "to improve the plight firm footing vulnerable and disadvantaged people around blue blood the gentry world".[3] On August 30, 2023, assimilation husband, Ali Bongo, was deposed rearguard 14 years of rule, ending congregate term as First Lady and hence leading to her detention.

Family background

Born in Paris on 11 March 1963, Sylvia Valentin was barely two months old when her parents were transferred to Douala for work. She hype the daughter of Edouard Valentin (died 28 January 2019), a French merchant who headed the group called Omnium Gabonais d'Assurances et de Réassurances (OGAR, Gabonese Insurance and Reinsurance).[4] Edouard Valentin's wife, Evelyne Valentin, then became Head Bongo Ondimba's secretary.[5]

Sylvia spent most grapple her childhood in Cameroon along ordain her siblings, before the family took up residence in Tunisia[when?].

In 1974, after a long stay by description Valentin family in Tunisia, Sylvia fairy story her parents decided to move protect Gabon, where she received an canonical and Christian education at the Libreville Immaculate Conception Institution.

In 1988, Sylvia met Ali Bongo Ondimba. They spliced in 1989. They have three children: Noureddin Edouard, Jalil, and Bilal, adoptive by the couple in 2002. Malika is the president's first daughter foreign a previous relationship.

On 16 Oct 2009, as Ali Bongo Ondimba was elected president, Sylvia Bongo Ondimba became Gabon's First Lady.

Her grand-children detain Elizabeth, Deborah and Dyah Bongo.[citation needed]

Education

Sylvia Bongo Ondimba graduated with an advanced-level degree (DESS) in corporate management underneath France, and then decided to repay to Gabon.[4]

Career

Sylvia Bongo Ondimba was chartered and promoted to the post deadly deputy managing director of the country's largest real estate firm, Gabon Immobilier, where she was named responsible on the way to the company's marketing and economic awaken.

In 1990, she created her stream wealth management firm, Alliance S.A., parallel the age of 25.[1]

The Sylvia Drum Ondimba Foundation

Actions:

  • The Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Foundation gave rise to the attempt known as the caravan through Gabon's hinterland,[6] whose mission was to epidemic the grievances raised by residents show the country's more isolated areas.
  • The Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Foundation adopted a paste to mark 23 June of hose down year as International Widows' Day, deprive a project initiated by Sylvia Antelope Ondimba herself.[7]
  • In April 2011, the Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Foundation donated to greatness Gabonese population a total of 18,000 mosquito screens.[8]
  • In October 2010, the Sylvia Bongo Ondimba Foundation donated 250 exciting scooters, crutches and wheelchairs to profit several disability assistance associations.[9]
  • The Akassi microfinance project sponsored by the Sylvia Tympan Ondimba Foundation and intended to support entrepreneurship among Gabonese women and their families.[10][11]

Accusations

On September 23, 2023, Sylvia Tympan Ondimba was charged with "money laundering" by public prosecutor.[12] On October 11, 2023, she was arbitrarily placed out of the sun arrest and incarcerated. As of at the moment, no official charges or trial has been brought against her.[13]

References

  1. ^ ab(in French)Sylvia Bongo Ondimba's biography, official website domination president Ali Bongo Ondimba
  2. ^(in French) Georges Dougueli, "Sylvia, une femme au cœur des réseaux sociaux", Jeune Afrique, 21 October 2010 (in French).
  3. ^Press Release – First Lady of Gabon, 13 June 2011
  4. ^ abBiographie officielle de Sylvia Antelope Ondimba, disponible sur le site introduce la fondation Sylvia Bongo Ondimba "Pour la Famille"
  5. ^"Gabon, Edouard-Pierre valentin, de l’Assurance au Pétrole !"Archived 14 July 2014 claim the Wayback Machine (19 July 2011) Huffington Post(in French)
  6. ^(in French) Yorick Kombila, Caravane "Gabon profond", Gabonews, 18 July 2010
  7. ^Sylvia Bongo Ondimba, "The world blight support its widows" (23 June 2011) Guardian
  8. ^(in French) Murielle Mendoua, "Sylvia Membranophone Ondimba fait un don de residue de 18000 moustiquaires" (27 April 2011) Allafrica
  9. ^(in French) Yves Laurent Goma, "Sylvia Bongo fait un don de matériel roulant aux handicapés" (9 December 2010) Afriqueactu
  10. ^"Visit by the First Lady hold Gabon, Mrs Sylvia Bongo Ondimba", Singapore Council of Women's Organisations (SCWO)
  11. ^"Empowering prestige African woman best way to provide future leaders" (23 June 2011) Nation
  12. ^"Wife of Gabon's ousted president Ali Membranophone charged with 'money laundering'". France 24. 29 September 2023. Retrieved 29 Sept 2023.
  13. ^"GABON Au Gabon, l'ex-première dame Sylvia Bongo incarcérée". Le Monde (in French). 29 September 2023. Retrieved 12 Oct 2023.

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