To stay or not To stay: a young Congolese refugee opts for a life in Gabon News Stories, 4 August 2011 LIBREVILLE, Gabon, Aug 3 (UNHCR) – Anita is old enough to remember her homeland, the Republic of Congo, but at a pivotal time in her life she has decided to settle in Gabon after [...]
| Print | E-mail Written by Thursday, 04 August 2011 GABON authorities are spreading awareness about performance enhancing drugs in sports a few months before the 2012 African Cup of Nations, to ensure a scandal-free tournament. A symposium on sports medicine and doping began on Monday in Libreville, capital of the co-host of the 2012 African Cup of [...]
Offshore staff CALGARY, Canada – Canadian Natural Resources (CNR) has reinstated production at the Olowi field offshore Gabon. The temporary suspension was caused by the failure of a midwater arch supporting production and gas-lift flowlines and the main power line. This has since been re-secured following a thorough evaluation/testing program. Output was restored at the [...]
Comilog Gabon, a mining venture controlled by Eramet (ERA) SA and the Gabonese government, increased first-half manganese alloy production 2.7 percent to 415,000 metric tons from a year earlier, the company said in a statement. Manganese sales rose 5.4 percent to 411,000 tons, it said in a statement broadcast on Radio Television Gabonaise yesterday. Manganese [...]
Sales of cars in Gabon rose 33 percent to 2,872 in the first half of the year, the Union of Automotive Industry Representatives said in a statement published in l’Union newspaper. Higher vehicle orders from Gabon’s government and companies operating in the central African nation accounted for the increase, the union said in the Libreville-based [...]
Libreville, Gabon – About 50,000 Congolese who fled the civil war in their country to seek refuge in Gabon between 1997 and 2003 have been told by the Gabonese government to return home as their refugee status expired Sunday, 31 July, PANA learnt Tuesday from official sources. The spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for [...]
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Gabon has ordered the dissolution of one of the Central African country’s main opposition groupings after one of its leaders proclaimed himself president in a mock swearing-in ceremony held last January. The country’s State Council body rejected an appeal against the move by the National Union (UN), whose executive secretary Andre Mba Obame conducted the [...]
Addis Ababa, July 31, 2011(WIC) – Prime Minister Meles Zenawi here on Saturday held talks with the Gabonese President, Omar Bongo’s special envoy, Alexandre Barro Chambrien. The Special Envoy came here with a message from President Omar Bongo to further strengthening the bilateral relation between the two countries. The Prime Minister on the occasion [...]
Oil India Ltd. (OINL), the nation’s second- biggest state-run oil producer, is in talks to buy a stake in Etablissements Maurel Prom SA’s assets in Gabon, three people with direct knowledge of the matter said. Oil India is studying the fields and plans to appoint banks for financial due diligence soon, two of the people [...]
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Health: Global Fund against HIV-AIDS resumes activities in Mauritania
Global Fund against HIV-AIDS – The Global Fund for the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will resume activities in Mauritania after ‘a successful negotiation between the government and its partners,’ according to a statement from the Mauritanian ministry of Health. The resumption of funding will enable the country receive substantial resources estimated at about [...]
Mauritanian Football Federation elects new president
2011-08-01 Mauritanian football fans can look forward to new leadership in the sport as the country looks to rebuild its programme. By Mohamed Foily Samba Vall for Magharebia in Nouakchott – 01/08/11 [Mohamed Foily] For the first time in its history, Mauritania’s football federation held a competitive election for new leadership. The Mauritanian Football Federation [...]
Zimbabwe’s image problem: Facebook caning linked to human rights abuse
Zimbabwe clearly has an image problem. When we posted a note on Monday about the caning sentence for a Chiredzi boy who ‘slandered’ a local woman on Facebook, we sincerely thought two cane strokes was not a big deal. Really. For us the important thing was that someone had managed to get some kind of [...]
Kicked out of Zimbabwe, he’s now a top sportsman
I think with playing sport at an elite level comes a responsibility Pundits have touted him as a future Wallabies captain, which would be welcomed by Australian rugby fans who have delighted in his unfulfilled Springboks dream MELBOURNE — A child of evicted Zimbabwean farmers, David Pocock arrived in Australia with a few suitcases and [...]
Mugabe praises coalition government with rivals
Mugabe, who turns 88 on Tuesday, has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, but has shared power with Tsvangirai’s rival Movement for Democratic Change since 2009 under a coalition after violent and disputed elections. Despite the agreement, Mugabe and Tsvangirai have continued to fight over government posts and policy, including Mugabe’s drive to [...]