Five anti-corruption campaigners in Gabon were arrested just before New Year and are being detained in harsh conditions on unknown charges, non-governmental...
I am headed to DC next week for the inauguration. Several of us Friends of Gabon Members will be crashing the Capozzi home in SE. I hope that others will be...
NGOs protest cancellation of French lawyer's visa to Gabon APA-Libreville (Gabon) Two international NGOs, Sherpa and Transparency International (France)...
Reuters. Gabon charged five journalists and anti-graft campaigners on Friday with trying to incite rebellion over a published document heavily criticising...
A military helicopter with 10 French soldiers on board has crashed into the sea off the African state of Gabon, killing at least one. The French military say...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7864604.stm Gaddafi's proposal has a great deal of merit. Too bad that the present African power brokers call all the shots....
Hello all, The trouble with the Guide is that when he says 'unity' he usually means a super-federation headed by himself, period. On a number of occasions he's...
http://cpj.org/2009/02/after-mysterious-fire-online-journalist-dead- in-re.php New York, February 6, 2009--An online columnist known for criticizing the...
I would like to get in contact with Felicien who is from Abam Eba, the last site I worked on in Gabon. I lost his mail address in 1974 but recently I learned...
More re French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner's dealings with presidents Omar Bongo and Denis Sassou Nguesso http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=45784 ...
2,500 languages threatened with extinction: UNESCO by Amer Ouali 2 hrs 39 mins ago PARIS (AFP) – The world has lost Manx in the Isle of Man, Ubykh in Turkey...
Thanks Brad. The NYT story is also here: IVINDO NATIONAL PARK, Gabon — The forest here seems to go on forever, interrupted only by the broad ribbons of its...
I just read every word I could find on the impending dam construction, looking for the first time at all the photos I could find on the gorgeous waterfalls,...
Very well written, but it's as if you were actually addressing Bongo himself, rather than a bunch of old RPCVs who fondly remember wanting to do well for...
Rhena Schweitzer Miller, the only child of Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian Dr. Albert Schweitzer, who carried on his medical missionary work in the West...
http://www.france24.com/en/20090226-french-court-seizes-gabonese-presidents-accounts-omar-bongo-bank AFP - France has frozen bank accounts held by Gabon's...
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Edith Lucie Bongo, wife of Omar Bongo, died Saturday in Morocco, the Presidency said. No details about the cause of her death were...
Edith Lucie Bongo Ondimba, the eldest daughter of President Denis Sassou Nguessou of Congo, died at 1620 GMT in Rabat, Morocco where she had been undergoing...
March 16, 2009 Automated translation from the French version that Brad Hodges [niakurondi@...] and Bob Utne sent. This translation is for those of us that...
http://www.apanews.net/apa.php?page=show_article_eng&id_article=92025 APA-Libreville (Gabon) The Gabonese ministries of Defense and Interior have announced the...
The current issue of "National Geographic Traveler," April 2009 has an article, " A Walk in the Park" about adventure travel with Michael Fay in the Loango...
Gabon bask in the glory http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/newsid=1043688.html Alain Giresse was a subtle footballer in his glory days as part of one of...
By Lord Aikins Adusei The strength of every society depends largely on its leadership. Throughout history successful societies have been those whose leaders...
Bob, This is the best summary of a grave situation that I have ever read. Thanks for sharing. Some people have wondered how this corruption ever got started....
Commercial hunters from towns are exacting a much bigger toll on great apes than subsistence hunters from small villages, according to an analysis of ape nest...
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