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Gabon

Bongo’s bricks and mortar

Using the excuse that it needs to house its diplomats, the Gabonese regime has been buying up property oversees. The latest example is the late Ted Kennedy’s house in Washington.

Subscribers only Politics 24.08.2011

Creditors kept waiting

Although the Gabonese authorities apparently have the wherewithal to buy up property in various parts of world, they are somewhat slower off the mark in settling their debts.

Subscribers only Politics 24.08.2011

Moroccan holiday for Ali Bongo

Gabonese president Ali Bongo Ondimba is due to travel to [...]

Subscribers only Politics 24.08.2011

Sifrigab struggling in Gabon

In October 2010, the Monaco-based company Frozen Trading signed a [...]

Subscribers only Business 24.08.2011

Paris and Libreville’s immigration travails

The French authorities are unable to meet their annual quotas of illegal immigrants sent back to Gabon because of Gabonese red tape.

Subscribers only Politics 20.07.2011

Ali Bongo’s new science prize

Gabon’s president Ali Bongo is poised to outdo Obiang by sponsoring a new international prize that will be awarded by the New York Academy of Sciences.

Subscribers only Politics 06.07.2011

Oiling wheels of presidential palace

While Ali Bongo would like to reinvigorate Gabon’s oil sector he wants to keep control of the strategic- and essentially family run - sector.

Subscribers only Politics 06.07.2011

Bongo's good governance drive

Between the ‘ill-goten gains' scandal and Obama's advice that Gabon clean up its act, Ali Bongo's claim to "good governance" has taken something of a battering.

Subscribers only Politics 22.06.2011

Petrobras beefs up its portfolio

Brazil’s state-owned Petrobras is in the process of cutting a deal with Ophir Energy to acquire 50% of its Ntsina [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.06.2011

Good Morning Commonwealth!

In July Libreville will ask to join the Commonwealth, West Africa Newsletter can exclusively reveal.

Subscribers only Politics 08.06.2011

Bongo rejigs public institutions

Gabonese President Ali Bongo has made a first round of high-level new appointments in some key institutions.

Subscribers only Politics 08.06.2011

Mahmoud Rozz (Bernabe)

Director of Bernabe Gabon, a company that specialises in industrial [...]

Subscribers only Business 08.06.2011

Oil shakeup in the offing?

The American firm Alex Stewart International, which was picked by [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Bongo and Obame stand-off continues

The authorities are growing increasingly exasperated with the troublesome opposition leader Andre Mba Obame, and want him dealt with before parliamentary elections, scheduled for the end of this year.

Subscribers only Politics 25.05.2011

Paris transports Bongo’s armoured vehicles

The Forces Francaises au Gabon (FFG) transported two armoured vehicles, [...]

Subscribers only Politics 25.05.2011

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Lake Tanganyika’s trail blazers

The last lake in the East African rift to present available blocks, Lake Tanganyika is being explored only by juniors at the moment. However, the majors have fixed their eyes on it, warmed by the thought of the 2.

Subscribers only Energy 24.05.2011

Comilog asked to dig deep

Félicité Ongouori Ngoubili, Gabon’s ambassador to France, asked several companies [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.05.2011

Alstom invites Gondjout for round of golf

Laure Gondjout, the secretary of the president’s office, is among [...]

Subscribers only Business 11.05.2011

Philip Tracy

The Scottish company Bowleven, which is active in Cameroon and Gabon, has a new director since May 3, in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.05.2011

ONEP targets illegal workers

Some 1,300 illegal workers in the oil sector are to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 10.05.2011

Hendrik Schloemann

The exploration chief of Goldstone Resources (listed on London’s AlM but based in South Africa), Hendrick Schloemann, has a lot [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.04.2011

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Bongo family starts to implode

Ali Bongo was kept on the fringes of power by his father, the late Omar Bongo, and today Ali Bongo is doing the same thing to his dozens of siblings and half siblings, whom he has been busy sacking from [.

Subscribers only Politics 20.04.2011

Paris apartments to get face-lift

The Gabonese Foreign Ministry has agreed to spend $700,000 on renovating its diplomatic apartments in Paris.

Subscribers only Politics 20.04.2011

Starwood boss attends Libreville board meeting

The Meridien group will hold the board meeting of its [...]

Subscribers only Business 20.04.2011

SEEG addresses ultimatum to Gabonese authorities

Relations between the Societe d’Eau et d’Energie du Gabon and [...]

Subscribers only Business 20.04.2011

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Gabon

Bongo’s bricks and mortar

Creditors kept waiting

Moroccan holiday for Ali Bongo

Sifrigab struggling in Gabon

Paris and Libreville’s immigration travails

Ali Bongo’s new science prize

Oiling wheels of presidential palace

Bongo's good governance drive

Petrobras beefs up its portfolio

Good Morning Commonwealth!

Bongo rejigs public institutions

Mahmoud Rozz (Bernabe)

Oil shakeup in the offing?

Bongo and Obame stand-off continues

Paris transports Bongo’s armoured vehicles

Spotlight
Lake Tanganyika’s trail blazers

Comilog asked to dig deep

Alstom invites Gondjout for round of golf

Philip Tracy

ONEP targets illegal workers

Hendrik Schloemann

Spotlight
Bongo family starts to implode

Paris apartments to get face-lift

Starwood boss attends Libreville board meeting

SEEG addresses ultimatum to Gabonese authorities

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Gabon

Bongo’s bricks and mortar

Creditors kept waiting

Moroccan holiday for Ali Bongo

Sifrigab struggling in Gabon

Paris and Libreville’s immigration travails

Ali Bongo’s new science prize

Oiling wheels of presidential palace

Bongo's good governance drive

Petrobras beefs up its portfolio

Good Morning Commonwealth!

Bongo rejigs public institutions

Mahmoud Rozz (Bernabe)

Oil shakeup in the offing?

Bongo and Obame stand-off continues

Paris transports Bongo’s armoured vehicles

Spotlight Lake Tanganyika’s trail blazers

Comilog asked to dig deep

Alstom invites Gondjout for round of golf

Philip Tracy

ONEP targets illegal workers

Hendrik Schloemann

Spotlight Bongo family starts to implode

Paris apartments to get face-lift

Starwood boss attends Libreville board meeting

SEEG addresses ultimatum to Gabonese authorities

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Lake Tanganyika’s trail blazers

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Bongo family starts to implode