In 2010, at the Woburn Safari Park there was a conservation campaign to help raise money to support the Bongo Surviellance Project and the Kenyan Wildlife Service.

Bongo was elected President in February 1973 ; in April 1975, the office of vice president was abolished and replaced by the office of prime minister, who had no right to automatic succession.

Bongo was re-elected President in December 1979 and November 1986 to 7-year terms.

Former President Omar Bongo OndimbaIn March 1991 a new constitution was adopted.

Facing a divided opposition, President Omar Bongo was re-elected in December 1998, with 66 % of the votes cast.

In December 1999, through the mediation efforts of President Bongo, a peace accord was signed in Congo-Brazzaville between the government and most leaders of an armed rebellion.

This was followed by a visit to the White House by President Bongo in May 2004.

When she was two she was introduced to Bongo, a 19 month old male from Africa, and on February 1, 1968, their first of three offspring was born, a female named Emmy, named by the zoo after the mayor of Columbus, M. E. " Jack " Sensenbrenner.

This part of the culture was initiated by Kool DJ Herc in 1972 using breaks from James Brown, The Incredible Bongo Band and English rock group Babe Ruth in his block parties.

The musical backdrop for " Bongo Bong ", in turn, was used in several other Chao songs, including " Je Ne T ' Aime Plus " from the same album and " Mr. Bobby " and " Homens " from Próxima Estación: Esperanza.

Due to this Disney put the feature films Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Wind in the Willows, Song of the South, Mickey and the Beanstalk and Bongo on hold until the war was over.

Wray recorded a cover version 30 years later, when it was also associated with The Ventures and the Incredible Bongo Band.

Jagland again made national headlines in a similar fashion to the publicity about " The Norwegian House " and " 36. 9 %", this time for the phrase " Bongo from Congo ", which Jagland used when referring to Omar Bongo, the President of Gabon, when he was visiting Norway.

In 1980 " Banana Republic " was released, which was their last Top 10 hit, and in the following year the Boomtown Rats ' next studio album Mondo Bongo was issued.

While in ECW, Austin used the platform to develop his future " Stone Cold " persona as well as a series of vignettes running down WCW in general and Bischoff in particular, most memorably in several promos that mocked his then-status as WCW Monday Nitro host by introducing Monday NyQuil, where he was joined by " Bongo " ( a set of drums, meant to represent Steve " Mongo " McMichael ) in promoting the show " where the big boys play with each other ".

El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba ( 30 December 1935 – 8 June 2009 ), born as Albert-Bernard Bongo, was a Gabonese politician who was President of Gabon for 42 years from 1967 until his death in office in 2009.

In March 1967, Leon M ' Ba and Omar Bongo were elected President and Vice President.

In March 1967, Leon M ' Ba and Omar Bongo ( then known as Albert Bongo ) were elected President and Vice President, with the BDG winning all 47 seats in the National Assembly.

In March 1967, Leon M ' Ba and Omar Bongo ( then Albert Bongo ) were elected president and vice president.

After Bongo's death in June 2009, his son Ali Bongo — who had long been assigned key ministerial responsibilities by his father — was elected to succeed him in August 2009.

Bongo campaigned for M. Sandoungout in Haut Ogooué in the 1961 parliamentary election, choosing not to run for election in his own right ; Sandoungout was elected and became Minister of Health.

In the presidential election held on 19 March 1967, M ' ba was re-elected as President with Bongo was elected alongside him as Vice-President.

Alain Bernard Bongo, later known as Ali-Ben Bongo, served as Foreign Minister from 1989 to 1991, then Defence Minister from 1999 to 2009, and was then elected president in August 2009 to replace his father.

Despite discontent from opposition parties, Bongo has remained president ever since.

M ' Ba died later that year, and Omar Bongo became president.

* Omar Bongo, president of Gabon from 1967 to 2009.

Aged 31, Bongo was Africa's fourth youngest president at the time, after captain Michel Micombero of Burundi and sergeant Gnassingbé Eyadéma of Togo.

In the 1973 elections for the national assembly and the presidency, Bongo was the sole candidate for president.

In November 2005 Bongo won a seven-year term as president in the 27 November election, winning 79. 2 percent of the vote, comfortably ahead of his four challengers.

In 1964 when renegade soldiers arrested him in Libreville and kidnapped president M ' ba, French paratroopers rescued the abducted president and Mr Bongo, restoring them to power.

Former French president Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing claimed that Bongo helped bankroll Jacques Chirac's 1981 presidential campaign.

Peru is investigating claims that a beauty pageant contestant was lured to Gabon to become the lover of its 67-year-old president, Omar Bongo, and was stranded for nearly two weeks after she refused.

M ' ba was reelected in March 1967, but died of cancer in November 1967 and was succeeded by his vice president, Albert-Bernard Bongo.

Ali Bongo ( 8 December 1929 – 8 March 2009 ) was a British comedy magician, and president of The Magic Circle who performed an act in which he was known as the " Shriek of Araby ".

Amidst this tension and controversy, the seven excluded candidates, along with the originally accepted candidates Kolingba and Goumba, called for the mediation of Gabonese president Omar Bongo.

* Omar Bongo ( 1935 – 2009 ), former president of Gabon

* Ali Bongo Ondimba ( born 1959 ), Current president of Gabon and son of Omar Bongo

Jagland stated on 2 February 2001 on the nationally broadcast television show I kveld med Per Ståle on TV 2 that " everybody at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs went around saying that ' now you are going to meet with Bongo from Congo.

After Cuban President Fidel Castro stepped down in February 2008, Bongo became the world's longest-serving non-monarch ruler.

Arrests were made in February 1982, when the opposition distributed leaflets criticizing the Bongo regime during a visit by Pope John Paul II.

A constitutional reform in February 1967 legitimized Bongo as M ' ba's successor.

President Bongo laid the cornerstone for the Memorial on 9 February 2007, and it was inaugurated by Bongo on 27 November 2007.

At the beginning of February 2009, Bongo collapsed while giving a lecture in Paris.

In February 2003, Gabonese Defence Minister Ali-Ben Bongo Ondimba visited the islands and re-stated Gabon's claim to them.