Gabon make surprise entrance to Afcon quarterfinals
Gabon sailed into the quarterfinals of Afcon as the Group C winner, leaving the last two places to be decided on the final day of group matches.
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Power to the Cup Nobodies
The Africa Nations Cup minnows are putting up
a surprising fight and challenging the status quo.
Chipolopolo come full circle
Nearly 19 years after a plane crash
claimed many of Zambia’s best players the country is eyeing the Africa Cup of Nations.
Gabon’s ruling party claims early parliamentary victory
Gabon’s ruling party has claimed winning 114 out of Parliament’s 120 seats in a legislative election largely boycotted by the opposition.
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Baby Bafana draw as qualifying chances diminish
Baby Bafana’s chances of qualifying for the under 23 African Championships are disappearing as they conceded another draw, this time to Gabon.
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Gabon averts oil strike threat for now
Gabon’s oil union has relaunched talks with the government about a dispute over the use of expatriate labour, averting the threat of a strike for now.
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Court sends Gabon to the polls as planned
Gabon’s constitutional court has ruled that elections must take place in December, overruling ruling party and opposition bids to delay.
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France probes African leaders’ wealth
Three African leaders and their families are to be investigated in Paris for allegedly embezzling state funds to acquire vast assets in France.
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Gabon tourist operation forced to close
A lodge airline has been grounded by the new government’s aviation authority bungling.
Protection from biopirates
The cure for many illnesses may lie hidden in South Africa’s plants, but do we have adequate legislation to safeguard our biodiversity from pillagers?
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Gabon opposition rejects court validation of Bongo win
Gabon’s failed opposition candidates on Wednesday urged mass resistance and rejected a top court’s validation of the contested poll win of Omar Bongo.
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Gabon court upholds Bongo’s victory
Gabon’s Constitutional Court says Ali Bongo won the August 30 presidential elections that opposition candidates said were fraudulent.
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Gabon opposition to boycott presidential vote recount
Gabon’s opposition said on Tuesday it would boycott a vote recount from last month’s presidential election won by Omar Bongo Ondimba’s son.
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Gabonese snub strike call
Many Gabonese snubbed an opposition appeal to stay at home in protest at a disputed presidential election on Monday.
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Govt stops opposition leaders from leaving Gabon
Gabon’s opposition leaders are barred from leaving the country in the wake of post-election violence, the Interior Ministry said on Wednesday.
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Troops restore order in restive Gabon city
Gabon security forces patrolled the streets of Port Gentil on Monday, with some civilian traffic returning after post-election violence.
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Gabon quiet, opposition vows court fight
Leading Gabon opposition figures said on Friday they would mount a legal challenge to the victory of ruling party candidate Ali Ben Bongo.
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Looting in Gabon city amid new election tensions
Gangs looted stores in Gabon’s second city of Port Gentil on Friday, amid new unrest after Ali Bongo was declared winner of the country’s election.
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Unrest in Gabon as Bongo poll win disputed
Security forces clashed with opposition supporters in Libreville on Thursday after Ali Ben Bongo was declared the winner of a disputed poll.
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Gabon’s Bongo declared winner of presidential poll
Ali Ben Bongo, son of Gabon’s long-time ruler, Omar Bongo, won an election to succeed his late father, the interior minister announced on Thursday.
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Protesters dispersed, Gabon poll result blocked
Security forces in Gabon used tear gas to disperse hundreds of opposition supporters outside the election commission on Thursday.
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Tension rises as Gabon awaits delayed election result
Gabon’s electoral commission said a delay in announcing the outcome of the contest to become president was due to a "misunderstanding".
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Gabon urged to stay calm before poll outcome
AU observers called for calm and Gabon’s forces stepped up patrols in the capital on Tuesday as election officials further delayed the poll result.
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Three Gabon candidates claim poll win ahead of results
The three main candidates in Gabon’s presidential election all claimed victory on Monday, though no official results were announced.
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Gabon voters queue to pick late leader’s successor
Gabonese voters stood in line on Sunday waiting for polls to open in an election to replace Omar Bongo Ondimba, who ruled the nation for 41 years.
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Gabon presidential hopefuls in row over ‘unity’ candidate
A bid to promote a unity candidate in Gabon’s presidential election appeared to have backfired on Friday.
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Security tight as Gabon eyes post-Bongo era
Gabon’s voters will head to closely guarded polling stations on Sunday to choose a successor to Omar Bongo.
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Night-side of life
Aircraft are a weird space where people are enclosed for many hours yet remain separate, each in a bubble.
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Gabon’s Senate leader set to assume interim power
Gabon’s government will ask the country’s top court to confirm Senate President Rose Francine Rogombe as interim leader after the death of Omar Bongo.
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A worm of doubt in ‘Eden’
Reality TV show Survivor‘s choice of Gabon for its current series has given the country reasons for self-reflection, writes Romeo Nkoulou Ella.
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At least 37 suspected migrants drown off Gabon
At least 37 suspected illegal migrants were found dead on the seafront of Gabon’s capital, Libreville, on Tuesday after their boat was wrecked.
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Equatorial Guinea eyes quick trial for Mann
Simon Mann, the suspected British mastermind of a failed 2004 coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea, has yet to have any date set for his trial, the country’s defence minister said on Monday. ”There is no date fixed but, as we have already said, we want [the trial] to take place quickly,” Antonio Obama Ndong said.
