Huguette Nyana Ekoume

Huguette Yvonne Nyana Ekoume is a Gabonese lawyer and politician who has been President of the country's Senate since December 2025.

Early life and education Ekoume is from Ogooué-Ivindo province. She worked as a legal and administrative officer at the General Inspectorate of Services of the Ministry of Economy, Budget and Privatization from 2005 to 2014, and then as an advisor to the Prime Minister from 2014 to 2016. She was elected President of the Senate unopposed on December 17, 2025, and is the fourth woman to occupy the role. Her election was noted as signifying a "political rebalancing" within the upper house, who favours administrative expertise over political lineage. Under the Constitution of Gabon, her role means she would assume interim presidency of the nation in the event of the President's incapacity.

At the opening of the Parliament's first ordinary session in March 2026, Ekoume said her election reflected the stated desire of her party's founding president, now President of the Republic, Brice Oligui Nguema to implement decentralization and to make the constitutional mission of representing local communities a practical reality.

Personal life Ekoume is married to Awori Onanga.