Gabon
Gabonese Republic
République Gabonaise
CAPITAL: Libreville
FLAG: The flag is a tricolor of green, golden yellow, and royal blue horizontal stripes.
ANTHEM: La Concorde (Harmony).
MONETARY...
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Gabon
Formerly part of French Equatorial Africa, the Republic of Gabon gained independence in August 1960. Gabon has an area of 267,669 square kilometers (103,347 square miles), and in 2003 its popula...
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Area: 267,667 sq km (103,347 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 1,406,000Capital:
Libreville
Chief of state:
President
Omar Bongo
Ondimba
Head of government:
Prime Ministers
Jean-François
Ntou...
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LIBREVILLE, Jan 16 (Reuters) - Gabon has lifted a ban on 22
non-government organisations a week after it suspended them for
criticising the way in which state resources were being spent in
the oil...
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LIBREVILLE, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Bodies of African migrants
wash up on the beaches and those who survive the ocean voyage
complain of discrimination and police harassment. This is not
Italy or Spain,...
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LIBREVILLE, Jan 2 (Reuters) - The crowd of African women are
tired and angry after hours waiting in the hot sun, but the
officials will not vaccinate their children until the president
inaugurates...
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LONDON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Campaign groups in resource-rich
African countries are becoming more vocal wanting to know where
oil and mining money goes but risk mounting government
clampdowns, an ad...
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LIBREVILLE, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Progress by African countries
in reducing child deaths from infectious diseases such as
measles could be lost unless governments improve routine
immunisation, a U.N. ...
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