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In the surreal surroundings of Gabon's gutted national stadium here Saturday Gernot Rohr likened his debut experience at the Africa Cup of Nations to a first date. The youthful looking 58-year-old told AFP: "My first Nations Cup - it's a beautiful adventure, I'm happy to live through it. It's like the first time with a woman, it makes your heart
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New York - Gabon on Monday expressed "outrage" over reports that former foreign minister Jean Ping was withdrawing from his campaign to seek a new term as head of the African Union commission. Ping is in competition with South Africa's Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, an ex-wife of President Jacob Zuma, for the post which will be decided at an
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Libreville - Gabon's Constitutional Court has received 45 demands from both the opposition and the ruling party for the annulment of results of December 17 elections, court officials said on Monday. "In all, 45 challenges were filed. There can be no others. The deadline has passed," one court source told AFP. The deadline in the equatorial African country was midnight
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LIBREVILLE – Gabon president Ali Bongo’s ruling coalition took 95 per cent of seats in a parliamentary election held last weekend, strengthening his hand in the central African oil-producing nation but sparking opposition accusations of fraud. Mr Bongo’s ruling PDG party took 113 of the parliament’s 120 seats, while the allied PGCI party took one seat, according to results issued
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President Ali Bongo's party scored a landslide victory in Gabon's parliamentary elections but turnout was low given an opposition boycott, it was announced. Bongo's Gabonese Democratic Party (PDG) secured 114 out of parliament's 120 seats, its best score since the end of the single party system in 1991, the electoral commission said. Turnout was only 34.28 percent, it added. Opposition
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Libreville - Gabon's opposition parties that boycotted the December 17 legislative election warned on Tuesday they were ruling nothing out as they mulled their reaction to the governing party's landslide. "The Gabonese opposition does not recognise the validity of the December 17 ballot since the parliament it will bring into office represents less than 10% of the population," Jules Aristide
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Two African observer missions on Monday deemed last week's legislative election in Gabon to be credible despite an opposition boycott, the absence of biometric voting technology and poor turnout. The African Union spoke in a statement of "an electoral campaign without any incidents of note and a generally well organised election." "Despite some shortcomings... the AU observation mission contends that
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Libreville - President Ali Bongo's ruling party was expected to cruise to victory in Saturday's election in Gabon after a divided opposition failed to rattle the regime's decades-old grip on the oil-rich state. For the first legislative polls since his father Omar died in 2009 after 41 years in power, Ali Bongo has campaigned on his economic achievements and the
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Gabon's most prominent opposition figure warned Friday that legislative elections to be held on December 17 would not be fair and would fail to interest voters. "The elections won't be credible. That's if they are held at all. I don't see turnout topping 20 percent. It'll be worthless, people won't show up," said Andre Mba Obame, who is currently in
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Libreville - The daughter of Gabon's late president Omar Bongo on Wednesday denied claims by an ex-aide that her father funded Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign. "I would like to formally deny the unfounded statements that have no connection to reality," Pascaline Bongo said in a statement. She was referring to charges by Mike Jocktane, who was a close aide
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Gabon's former prime minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong, now an opposition leader, called on voters to boycott December 17 legislative elections, at a press conference Saturday. "I call on you simply to stay at home on December 17," he said. "By this gesture, you will contribute to there being no valid election on that day," he added. By refusing to participate
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Libreville - Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba on Thursday accepted an apology from Benin after a diplomatic passport incident there involving his chief of staff, while announcing an enquiry. "The matter is closed. It's not a question of our countries' relations being affected by this kind of incident," Bongo told a press conference after receiving a Benin delegation led by
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World Cup 2014 hosts Brazil celebrated a 2-0 friendly win over Gabon Thursday as the hosts inaugurated the Stade de l'Amitie. Gabon's new national stadium will stage the final of the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations, to be co-hosted by Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, on February 12. And the hosts gave the former world champions a run for their money,
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Gabonese oil workers warned they would start an unlimited strike on November 6, calling for restrictions on the number of foreign workers being hired in the sector. Gabon's oil industry union ONEP threatened in a message to Prime Minister Paul Biyoghe Mba that it would call a nationwide strike, complaining about wage discrimination between foreign and Gabonese oil workers. ONEP
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Gabon's opposition leader Pierre Mamboundou, who finished third in the 2009 presidential polls, has died, his party said Sunday. Fidele Waura, secretary general of Mamboundou's Gabon People's Union (GPU), said the veteran opposition chief died late Saturday. "He had worked all day Saturday and looked in fine shape," Waura told AFP. Mamboundou, 65, had also lost in the 2006 presidential
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Gabon distanced itself Sunday from claims that French ex-president Jacques Chirac and prime minister Dominique de Villepin received cash to finance election campaigns from its one-time leader Omar Bongo.
"Our presidency dates from 2009, we deal with matters from that point," a presidential source told AFP, referring to the election of current president Ali Bongo Ondimba
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Libreville - Oil-rich Gabon confirmed on Tuesday it bought a mansion of the late US senator Ted Kennedy in Washington for $6.5m to house its new embassy in the US capital.
A statement from the presidency received by AFP said the west African country had paid $6.5m for "a new residence for its embassy in Washington"
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Libreville - Rights groups and trade unions in Gabon on Saturday called on French Prime Minister Francois Fillon to condemn and withdraw support for President Ali Bongo Ondimba.
Fillon arrived in the capital Libreville on Saturday evening. He was to meet with Bongo, whose government is a key French military and economic partner in central Africa.
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Libreville - Gabon's opposition on Friday pulled out of the electoral commission over the ruling party's refusal to introduce biometric voter registration.
Parliamentary elections in the small west African state are due before the end of the year.
Thirteen parties signed a joint statement announcing their decision "to suspend the participation of all
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Three illegal immigrants have died in detention in northern Gabon possibly because of cholera, health authorities said, amid claims of abuse of people expelled from an irregular gold mine.
Ten illegal immigrants in detention were brought to a health centre at Bitam, near the border with Cameroon, on Thursday, one of whom was already dead, Health
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President Barack Obama's spokesman has defended a decision to invite President Ali Bongo for a White House meeting on Thursday on the grounds that Gabon is an "important ally" of the United States, and holds the presidency of the United Nations Security Council this month.
At a White House briefing on Wednesday, spokesman Jay Carney was
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Libreville - A DHL cargo plane plunged into the sea off the coast of Gabon's capital Libreville on Monday but the four crew on board were pulled out alive, air safety officials told AFP.
It was unclear what caused the plane to ditch into the sea, officials said at the scene of the accident where emergency
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A total of seven home-based players are handed a call-up to the Gambia national team set for a friendly against Nations Cup joint host Gabon next month.
Gambia is set to honour an invitation from the Gabonese football authorities for a test in Libreville early June as the Scorpions brace up ahead of their remaining African
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Libreville - Militants supporting Gabonese opposition leader Andre Mba Obame caught four men overnight, including a police officer, whom they believed wished to arrest Mba Obame illegally, they said on Friday.
The four men were detained overnight by members of Mba Obame's National Union (UN) who keep watch over the home of the opposition leader, who
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Libreville - Gabon president Ali Bongo Ondimba is to seek a court ruling on a possible deferral of the 2011 election to next year to allow for the introduction of biometrics, a statement released on Monday said.
The president is to refer the matter to the constitutional court, said the statement published following a meeting with
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