This page is no longer being updated. It was last updated on 1 September 2023 Gabon, on the west coast of Africa has had few leaders since its independence from France in 1960, with Omar Bongo ruling ...

Gabon, on the west coast of Africa has had few leaders since its independence from France in 1960, with Omar Bongo ruling as president for more than four decades until his death in 2009. During his ...

Gabon recently received the first $17 million of a pledged $150 million from Norway for results-based emission reduction payments as part of the Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI). Gabon has 88% ...

Only two autocratic presidents have ruled Gabon since independence from France in 1960. The current president of Gabon, El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba - one of the longest-serving heads of state in the ...

The Central African country already has an incredibly low deforestation rate but it has pledged to reduce its CO2 emissions even further. Gabon has become the first country in Africa to get paid for ...

The government in Gabon says the “situation is under control” and that rebels there have been arrested after military officers seized state media and announced they had leadership of the country. The ...

According to Britannica, Gabon is situated on the west coast of Central Africa. It shares its borders with Equatorial Guinea and Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, ...

Gabon’s National Dialogue, called to pave the way for a return to constitutional order and an end to the 55-year Bongo dynasty, began Tuesday in the central African state. Transitional President ...

After the death of Omar Bongo Ondimba and with oil revenues beginning to slow, ?Gabon is at an unfamiliar and potentially destabilising crossroads After nearly 42 years under the leadership of ...