Gabon News

London, 19 June 2013 - Vice President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum attended today the 2nd day of the Royal Ascot meeting.

Libreville , June 19: India's Bharti Airtel will invest $125 million more in Gabon to develop the communications network in the central African country.

South Sudanese Supermodel and former refugee Alek Wek has been appointed as the UN refugee agency's newest National Goodwill Ambassador, UNHCR reports.

Switzerland's Gunvor has signed a deal with Gabon to create a joint venture to sell refined oil products along the western coast of Africa, sources said on Tuesday, as the trader seeks to expand in one of the world's fastest growing fuel markets.

Mahamat Mouta Djirabi, a Chadian, walks through the hotel lobby of the New York Forum Africa conference carefully searching for participants to connect with.

While lowland bongo antelopes are fairly plentiful throughout Western and Central Africa, mountain bongos are critically endangered.

THE long-troubled Central African Republic is drifting deeper into crisis under an unruly band of rebels whose coup in March ended President FranA ois BozizA©'s decade of rule.

A member of Gabon's senate has been arrested in an investigation into the ritual killing of a 12-year-old girl in the central African nation four years ago, the first time a senior politician has been detained in such a case.

I first conceived of the notion of creating a pan-African economic forum for Africa, in Africa in 2012.

IT was a major feat for Nigeria when the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Prof.

A team of Japanese researchers say they have developed a vaccine that cuts the risk of malaria developing in humans by more than two-thirds. A doctor at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambarene, Gabon, examines on December 11, 2012 a child suffering from fever.

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma, center-right, and Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, center-left, share a joke as Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba, right, looks on at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 26, 2013.

A FIFA appointee is investigating the use of a $548,262 grant paid to Gabon's defense ministry to promote soccer as the sport's ruling body tightens regulations on managing development funds.

A beautiful new church was recently erected in a forest clearing in Libreville , the capital of Gabon.