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Inheriting your family’s home is not always a good thing
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Inheriting your family’s home is not always a good thing

The family home often offers a strong emotional connection to one’s past and can evoke a number of sentimentalities when it comes to selling or inheriting this piece of personal history. Property owners selling their much-loved homes often struggle to separate emotion from the transaction but when one has been bequeathed the home of a...

Gabon: how the Bongo family’s 56-year rule has hurt the country and divided the opposition
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Gabon: how the Bongo family’s 56-year rule has hurt the country and divided the opposition

Douglas Yates, American Graduate School in Paris (AGS) Gabon’s president Ali Bongo Ondimba (2009-present) recently announced his intention to stand for re-election in the country’s presidential poll scheduled for 26 August. He is, to state the obvious, expected to win. Ali Bongo, son of former president Omar Bongo who ruled the country from 1967 to...