Gabon

Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Senegal should learn from South Africa’s experience when preparing for their dealings with the US administration

Rigging elections has been a national sport in too many of the region’s territories – will Cameroon and Congo-Brazzaville be next?

Ali Bongo is standing in elections on 26 August for a third term as president of the central African country

Far too many African assets are still under the control of Western powers

The event is a chance for African countries to embrace national interests in climate-change mitigation actions and socio-economic development.

Mali’s junta now finds itself ostracised by its regional peers – and at the centre of a dangerous new geopolitical game.

New scientific research shows the oil company understood the science before it became a public issue and spent millions to promote misinformation

Next year, COP27 will be hosted in an African country, but by then it may be too late for the continent to get the assistance it needs

“Family fortunes” in Chad reflect further-reaching dynamics of ruling

Restrictions to battle the pandemic offer ideal cover for authoritarian regimes to undermine and clamp down on opposition parties

The country usually exports 10 000 tonnes of the crop each year. But Covid-19 rules have stopped the trade and are ruining farmers

There are 30 skeletons in the Iroungou cave, and carbon dating has shown they are from the 14th century. It is only the second cave burial site to be unearthed on the continent

Developing countries such as ours cannot follow the same growth path that Western economies have taken over the last century and a half

Last week, the country put down a coup attempt, capturing the rebel chief and killing two of his men

Gabon has been without an effective government for months since Bongo suffered the stroke in October during a visit to Saudi Arabia