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...Last year EY won a share of the €60mn-a-year audit contract of France’s largest bank BNP Paribas, prompting senior partner Omar Ali to tell staff the firm was “now the clear market leader in financial services...
...Ali Bongo succeeded his father, Omar, who died in June 2009 after ruling for nearly 42 years....
...Yet Omar Bongo, born into a peasant family in Gabon’s Bateke region, was no doctor or lawyer....
...“The housing market is taking the biggest hit,” said Omar Ali, EY’s financial services managing partner for Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa....
...Bongo has been in power since his father Omar Bongo died in office in 2009 having run the central African country for more than four decades....
...The recently deposed President Ali Bongo was an even worse version of his father....
...Ali Bacher, a relative of Teeger who captained South Africa’s whites-only national cricket team during the apartheid era, said the decision to remove the player tapped uncertainty in the Jewish community...
...EY’s EMEIA financial services leader Omar Ali announced EY’s appointment by BNP this week in an internal memo to staff seen by the Financial Times....
...His father Omar Bongo ran Gabon from 1967 until his death in 2009, when Ali Bongo succeeded him....
...European diplomats in Libreville, Gabon’s capital, held crisis talks yesterday as the country’s arrested president, Ali Bongo, issued a video calling for western assistance....
...The term refers to the system that took root in the 1960s that saw Paris prop up locally despised leaders — such as Ali Bongo’s father Omar, who ruled for more than 40 years — in exchange for the protection...
...The junta, led by General Omar Tchiani who previously ran Bazoum’s presidential guard, has spurned diplomatic efforts to seek a solution to the unfolding crisis....
...Tchiani on Tuesday began forming a cabinet, appointing Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine, a former finance minister, as prime minister....
...Chairs at financial services companies “spoke of concerns that the prestige of a board seat could affect willingness to challenge the status quo”, said Omar Ali, EY’s financial services managing partner...
...Burhan climbed through the army ranks while fighting rebels in Darfur who rose up against the Arab-dominated government of former strongman Omar al-Bashir in a brutal war that started in 2003 and cost about...
...But even if he is welcomed back into the fold, it is worth remembering that such visits did not save Sudan’s Omar Bashir — nor did it help his country....
...“The region’s economies are facing recession, and a contraction in borrowing driven by reduced demand and supply is forecast as consumers, businesses and banks become more cautious,” said Omar Ali, partner...
...“I think progressive financial services firms see this as a strategic priority,” said Omar Ali, financial services managing partner for Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa at EY....
...“Both the federal government and the clans are committed to sustaining their momentum,” says Omar Mahmood, senior Somalia analyst at the Crisis Group think-tank....
...Like other young Sudanese persecuted for their part in the protests that helped end Omar al-Bashir’s 30 year rule in 2019, he believed Britain, the former colonial power, would grant him sanctuary....
...Mohammad Yaqoob, Taliban founder Omar’s son, has been appointed acting defence minister....
...Hiba Mohamed Ali, Hamdok’s former finance minister, estimates Sudan needs about $10bn between loans, aid and investments in the run-up to the election. Sudanese may be harder to convince, though....
...During a 45-minute meeting at Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani’s simple home in Najaf, which the hermetic cleric rarely leaves, Pope Francis thanked the 90-year-old “for speaking up — together with the Shia...
...In neighbouring Sudan “Meinfajria” by Dafaalla Elhag Ali celebrates the joy of independent agricultural work with a swaying rhythmical click....
...In the ruins of his devastated hospital, Ali Omar Tarabi despairs at the violence that has come to the city of Guriel, a once peaceful haven in Somalia. “The fighting, the war has arrived here....
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