For 10 points, name this long-serving dictator of Gabon.
This leader received the Dag Hammarskjold Prize for working to resolve the Chad-Libya border conflict and was accused by the opposition group MORENA of siphoning funds to the Bateke ethnic group. Valery Giscard d'Estaing claimed that this leader bankrolled Jacques Chirac's 1981 presidential campaign. Thanks to his country's massive supply of uranium, this leader's country was the main supplier to the nuclear program of France for years. During this leader's tenure, his country became (*) several times wealthier than most other sub-Saharan African nations thanks to oil discoveries during the 1970s. This leader changed his name after converting to Islam during a trip to Libya in 1973 and was known as the "Little Big Man" since he was barely over five feet tall. For 10 points, name this long-serving dictator of Gabon.
This leader received the Dag Hammarskjold Prize for working to resolve the Chad-Libya border conflict and was accused by the opposition group MORENA of siphoning funds to the Bateke ethnic group.
Omar Bongo [or Albert-Bernard Bongo]