The Africa Nations Cup minnows are putting up
a surprising fight and challenging the status quo.
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 has claimed winning 114 out of Parliament’s 120 seats in a legislative election largely boycotted by the opposition.
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/ 1 December 2011
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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/ 9 November 2011
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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/ 1 November 2011
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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/ 15 November 2010
Three African leaders and their families are to be investigated in Paris for allegedly embezzling state funds to acquire vast assets in France.
A lodge airline has been grounded by the new government’s aviation authority bungling.
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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/ 14 October 2009
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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/ 13 October 2009
Gabon’s Constitutional Court says Ali Bongo won the August 30 presidential elections that opposition candidates said were fraudulent.
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/ 30 September 2009
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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/ 14 September 2009
Many Gabonese snubbed an opposition appeal to stay at home in protest at a disputed presidential election on Monday.
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/ 10 September 2009
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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/ 7 September 2009
Gabon security forces patrolled the streets of Port Gentil on Monday, with some civilian traffic returning after post-election violence.
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/ 5 September 2009
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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/ 4 September 2009
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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/ 3 September 2009
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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/ 3 September 2009
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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/ 3 September 2009
Security forces in Gabon used tear gas to disperse hundreds of opposition supporters outside the election commission on Thursday.
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/ 3 September 2009
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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/ 1 September 2009
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.
The three main candidates in Gabon’s presidential election all claimed victory on Monday, though no official results were announced.
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.
A bid to promote a unity candidate in Gabon’s presidential election appeared to have backfired on Friday.
Gabon’s voters will head to closely guarded polling stations on Sunday to choose a successor to Omar Bongo.
Aircraft are a weird space where people are enclosed for many hours yet remain separate, each in a bubble.
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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/ 12 December 2008
Reality TV show Survivor‘s choice of Gabon for its current series has given the country reasons for self-reflection, writes Romeo Nkoulou Ella.
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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/ 26 February 2008
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.
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 the campaign on state television. When he finally does so, half a day has been lost from the five-day vaccination scheme. It is a small reminder that, for healthcare in Africa, politics can be as decisive as poverty.