LIBREVILLE : Chinese President Hu Jintao arrived in a major oil- producing country, Gabon, the only sub-Saharan stop on a three-nation tour of Africa partly...
Beauty Queen Says She Was Held Captive Wednesday February 4, 2004 5:01 PM By TODD PITMAN Associated Press Writer DAKAR, Senegal (AP) - Peru is investigating...
"....Bongo has kept a tight grip on power in this oil-rich former French colony since becoming president in 1967. He has faced similar allegations in the past....
Throughout its engagements with Africa, interests of the African people never figured in French designs for la Grande France -- a worldwide French community...
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LIMA, Peru (Reuters) - A Peruvian beauty queen who traveled to Gabon to organize a "Miss Humanity" contest said on Friday she had been the victim of a "white...
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"A former US ambassador to Gabon and to Sao Tome and Principe, Wilson is now an active Kerry backer, the senator's website says. Wilson has alleged that his...
carol saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you should see it. ** Gabon acts over school of shame ** Senior staff at Gabon's largest secondary school...
http://allafrica.com/stories/200402170743.html "..President Omar Bongo, Africa's longest serving head of state, has declared the fight against AIDS to be a...
I'm not sure. Haven't followed the news for the past week or so. It has been a bit hectic around the house. But last info I had they wanted to open by the...
According to the latest "Union", the school is still not open, although the article suggests that the government does plan to re-open the school this year. For...
I just got some new information - word of mouth. Apparently the school IS a technical school as we know it and the person who had told me otherwise in the...
carol saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you should see it. ** Concern mounts over parrot trade ** A growing trade in smuggled grey parrots...
U.S. Military Shows Interest in Africa Tue Feb 24,12:24 PM ET By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press Writer DAKAR, Senegal - Top U.S. generals are touching down...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/02/23/60II/main601745.shtml I have viewed several lowland gorillas in the wild (and many more in zoos including a great set...
I think that you will be eating those words once you see what Bongo's replacement would be like. Be prepared for a lot of violence and useless destruction and...
Re: Dupont's comments I think this point raises an interesting issue. One of the classic justifications that authoritarian leaders make to hang onto power is...
To me it seems that a capable alternative to President Bongo has not emerged and for that reason the current administration continues to have the support of...
Libreville 29 February 2004 11:09 Alain Meyoghe has been wheelchair bound for most of his young life since an attack of poliomyelitis at the age of three. But...
Dupont - From 1968 through the early 1990s, Omar Bongo ran a one-party state. Some opponents were shot by firing squads on national television. There was no...
The table was set by the French well before Bongo ascended to power. In 1960, Jacques Foccart persuaded De Gaulle to break French Equatorial Africa into five...
By Daniel Mboungou Mayengue, BBC, Gabon The Omar Bongo Technical High School is lifeless. President Bongo ordered the closure of the school which bears his...
Did the students riot again, or this coverage from the last round of violence? Jeremy bobutne <bobutne@...> wrote: By Daniel Mboungou Mayengue, BBC,...
I am heading to Gabon in June as a PCV and was wondering if anyone has any advice on banking services in Gabon. I've been banking with Chase for years, and...
Nice problem. In our group, Gabon 1, none of us had that problem. We had no extra money and there was nothing to buy other than beer. You ever watch "Survivor"...
carol saw this story on BBC News Online and thought you should see it. ** Trouble at Gabon president's school ** Gabon's largest high school, named after...
