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Frontline role for Ali Bongo's governors in general election

The new heads of province are tasked with tightening the regime's stranglehold on the forthcoming elections.

Subscribers only Politics 19.09.2018

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A battle of nerves over the Pozzo Di Borgo townhouse!

To force the president to pay up, one of the country's creditors is determined to sell the luxury townhouse in Rue de l'Universite. The latest revelations.

Subscribers only Business 19.09.2018

Hyrdocarbons code reform: why pascal Houangni Ambouroue is now looking at 2019

The preparations for the general elections in October could push [...]

Subscribers only Energy 18.09.2018

Guang Hai Wei leads NoGa Mining to first million tonnes of manganese

Nouvelle Gabon Mining (NoGa Mining) investors have decided to switch up the company's leadership to move into a new phase [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.09.2018

CEMAC mining code in final stages before launch

A work group tasked to validate the mining code to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 11.09.2018

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Webcor delivers the regime a hammer blow

Still very much in the economic doldrums (WAN 783), Gabon is also increasingly running into setbacks in the legal action [...]

Subscribers only Business 07.09.2018

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Ali Bongo gambles the lot to get back on track

Mired in an unprecedented economic and social crisis, the Gabonese president is planning a raft of eye-catching measures after the forthcoming parliamentary elections in the hope of regaining control of a situation that bodes very ill.

Subscribers only Politics 05.09.2018

After the parliamentary elections in October, Ali Bongo is expected to announce drastic measures.

Berre, Bongo's new sales rep in Moyen-Ogooue

The minister for promoting investment and public-private partnerships since 2016, 51-year-old Madeleine Berre, is Ali Bongo's new representative in Lambarene, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 05.09.2018

A financial downturn for SEEG in 2017

The economic crisis that Gabon has been weathering since 2015 [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.09.2018

Former oil minister Etienne Ngoubou to appear before court

The case of corruption against former minister of hydrocarbons Etienne Ngoubou opened on August 30 after 19 months of provisional [...]

Free access Energy 04.09.2018

GOC attempts offshore comeback

A whole 18 months later than planned, the GOC will at last inherit a 10% stake in the Dussafu Marin permit.

Subscribers only Energy 04.09.2018

Vaalco's running saga with Etame Marin

Desperate to secure an extension to its rights on the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 04.09.2018

Bongo seeks a majority in the parliamentary elections

The president is banking on the 6 October ballot to shore up his position. Analysis.

Subscribers only Politics 22.08.2018

Tesla to set up shop in Libreville

The American manufacturer is set to choose Gabon for its first outlet south of the Sahara. An exclusive.

Subscribers only Business 22.08.2018

The state and Veolia to battle it out in the courts

The reconciliation process forming part of the arbitration request lodged [...]

Subscribers only Business 22.08.2018

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Perenco in Gabon's offshore black box

With its nearly 25 million barrels of reserve a mystery field that is not on any map of Gabon's offshore blocks, has caught the attention of the family French-British firm Perenco. In turn dubbed Roussette, Espadon, then finally Sardine, this [.