The new Prime Minister and Vice-President of Gabon are named.

President Ali Bongo of Gabon has named Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, the nation's first female prime minister, as vice president and nominated a new prime minister to succeed her. In a video statement released on the president's Twitter account, Bongo's secretary general Jean-Yves Teale announced that former minister Alain-Claude Bilie By Nze will take Ossouka Raponda's position and create a new administration.President Ali Bongo of Gabon named a new prime minister to succeed Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, the nation's first female prime minister, and elevated her to the position of vice president on Monday.President Ali Bongo of Gabon named Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, the nation's first female prime minister, as vice president and designated a new prime minister to succeed her.

For all banking, SSC, insurance, and other exams, get the Prime Test Series. After her predecessor resigned in July 2020, Ossouka Raponda, then fifty-nine, was appointed. Prior to it, she was Minister of Defense. Prior to being elected mayor of the capital Libreville in 2014—and being the first woman to hold that office since 1956—Ossouka Raponda was nominated Minister of the Budget in 2012.

After a coup attempt in 2019, she was forced to negotiate a challenging political landscape as prime minister while Bongo was on extended medical leave due to a stroke. In a video statement released on the president's Twitter account, Bongo's secretary general Jean-Yves Teale announced that former minister Alain-Claude Bilie By Nze will take Ossouka Raponda's position and create a new administration.About Gabon: Gabon is a nation located on Central Africa's western coast. Situated on the equator, its boundaries are shared by the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west. Coastal plains, a savanna in the east, and mountains—the Cristal Mountains and the Chaillu Massif in the center—are present.