and.....China signs $3 billion iron-ore deal with Gabon. http://www.mining-journal.com/Breaking_News.aspx? breaking_news_article_id=713 ... One or more US...
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bobutne
Sep 18, 2006 11:20 pm
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IRIN/a5668aa627b4b5d2e4cae85a cd37933a.htm LIBREVILLE, 18 September (IRIN) - Patiently scraping the scales off fish at...
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w Siemers
family-times
Sep 19, 2006 12:36 am
Maybe a little from left field, but some 40 years ago or so, there were those of us who were concerned that in Gabon there were developing two classes. The...
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bobutne
Sep 29, 2006 10:44 pm
Libreville - China is investing massively across Africa, especially in oil and construction, and especially in countries like Sudan, where it backs the...
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bobutne
Oct 16, 2006 12:39 am
afrol News, 13 October - Steadily dropping since its peak in 1997, Gabon's oil production is finally experiencing a slight growth, new statistics reveal. In...
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rodrigues_miqueias
rodrigues_mi...
Oct 23, 2006 9:25 pm
Hi, My name's Miquéias. I'm a Brazilian from Florianópolis. About twelve years ago I became friends with three young women from Gabon who happened to be...
TEREZ ROSE http://www.dailynews.com/theiropinion/ci_4686489 THANKSGIVING, when you get down to it, is all about tradition. Year after year, we seek out (or...
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bobutne
Nov 22, 2006 9:58 pm
"In 1982 I became a teacher of English as a foreign language with the Peace Corps. I was posted to Gabon in Central Africa. Twenty-three years later, in 2005,...
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bobutne
Nov 22, 2006 10:36 pm
Part 2... Before leaving for Vietnam, my husband and I learned all we could about the country. This was not difficult as resources are plentiful. The shared...
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bobutne
Dec 12, 2006 1:54 am
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/dec2006/2006-12-07-03.asp WASHINGTON, DC, December 7, 2006 (ENS) - The Ebola virus has wiped out as many as 5,000 lowland...
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tom_leblanc_chico
tom_leblanc_...
Dec 12, 2006 7:58 am
A survey by Employee Conditions Abroad International, a membership organization for international human resources, has ranked Harare, Zimbabwe, as the world's...
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Bradley Alan Hodges
niakurondi
Dec 12, 2006 8:46 am
What a tiring issue this has become, of how much expatriates must spend on "luxury goods, restaurant meals, and grocery costs." C'mon RPCVS, help me out here....
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Amin F. Abari
aminabari
Dec 12, 2006 12:25 pm
I personally, very rarely saw any "U.S. Americans" (or other Americans) buying Pringles or anything else. Gabon is not like some other sub-Saharan African...
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Darcy Meijer
darcy.meijer
Dec 12, 2006 5:35 pm
How sad about the gorillas. ... From: gabondiscussion@yahoogroups.com on behalf of bobutne Sent: Mon 12/11/2006 8:51 PM To: gabondiscussion@yahoogroups.com ...
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Bradley Alan Hodges
niakurondi
Dec 12, 2006 5:41 pm
Which proves my point entirely. If you're going to order your food over the Internet and have it shipped in from another part of the world, you shouldn't have...
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bobutne
Dec 13, 2006 3:45 am
How many US expatriates reside in Gabon? My guess, besides the US embassy staff, only a few missionaries and a few others working in the petroleum industry; in...
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Tom LeBlanc
tom_leblanc_...
Dec 13, 2006 7:36 am
I must admit that at first I was taken aback but then pleasantly surprised by the strong responses in both directions (both pro and con) to this simple ...
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Darcy Meijer
darcy.meijer
Dec 15, 2006 9:50 pm
For Bradley A. Hodges, I feel as you do about expats who can't adapt to the local lifestyle. In fact, I wrote about it in an essay for the PC Writers website. ...
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Bradley Alan Hodges
niakurondi
Dec 16, 2006 2:59 am
Feel free to print anything from this discussion forum; it's public domain, right? (On second thought, perhaps you might ought to ask for a second on that from...
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Amin F. Abari
aminabari
Dec 16, 2006 5:43 am
I like your logic!! All it proves is that Gabon is so expensive that it is more cost efficient for the people to have food shipped all the way from the US and...
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Amin F. Abari
aminabari
Dec 16, 2006 5:50 am
Well, the reason it was a personal email to you (I just reposted it) was that I didn't want to turn this forum into a pissing contest. But since you brought up...
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Brad Hodges
niakurondi
Dec 16, 2006 7:27 am
Amin Fly-off-the-handle Abari, I'm sorry you would judge someone's personality whom you haven't even met. Nevertheless, I won't apoligize for my personality. I...
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Gary Marsh
m6jockey
Dec 16, 2006 6:49 pm
Amin F. Abari 1 Bradley Alan Hodges 0 Call the game because of darkness and go home for cookies and milk or manioc and malumba. ... ...
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bobutne
Jan 13, 2007 2:14 am
http://outside.away.com/outside/destinations/200701/africa-gabon- national-parks-1.html "LOOKING UP AT THE FAT, GRAY SKY, it was hard to tell when, or even if,...
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bobutne
Jan 31, 2007 9:09 pm
http://english.people.com.cn/200701/24/eng20070124_344453.html "Gabon and Morocco will stage a joint medico-military maneuver in June to benefit people in...
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bobutne
Jan 31, 2007 9:16 pm
China will send 44 agricultural experts and technicians to Gabon to help small-scale farmers there improve crop and animal production, fish farming and...
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Gary Marsh
m6jockey
Jan 31, 2007 9:29 pm
Bob, Souns like a Chinese Peace Corps to me. GM ... _________________________________________________________________ Get live scores and news about your team:...
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Darcy Meijer
darcy.meijer
Jan 31, 2007 11:39 pm
This is great. Food is the way to begin. What is it in the U.S. that prevents food from getting to all who need it? Shouldn't this be a no-brainer, given our...
