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A French newspaper, Le Monde has attempted to clear doubts over the nationality of Gabonese president Ali Bongo by publishing the original copy of his birth certificate. The controversy started recently when a French journalist and author Pierre Pean reported that Ali Bongo was not the biological son of the late Gabonese leader Omar Bongo.

Some sources have hinted that Le Monde newspaper got the birth certificate from a former French officer stationed in the Congo during the colonial era. Gabonese opposition groups have however dismissed the document as a "fabrication" by the French to prevent an uprising against a foreigner running their country. It is important to include in this report that President Ali Bongo had filed in France a complaint against Pierre Pean author of a book defending the theses that he is of Nigerian heritage.‎