PHOTO: Ali Bongo once imported fake snow to the Presidential Palace, so his family could have a snowy Christmas

Gabon’s ousted President Ali Bongo once imported fake snow to the Presidential Palace, so his family could have a snowy Christmas.

33.4% of Gabon’s population live in poverty despite being oil rich and having a population of only 2.4 million people.

Barely four days after winning the presidential election, The Gabonese President, Ali Bongo, has been deposed by the military in the Central African region ending 56 years of Bongo’s family rule. The Bongo family has ruled Gabon for 56 years. His father ruled for 42 years and his son for 14 years.

One among these are details that are flooding the web is the fact of how Gabon President Ali Bongo once imported fake snow to the Presidential Palace, so his family could have a snowy Christmas.