20111019
Reuters
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon's oil trade union held back on Tuesday from a previous threat to call a strike but warned the government it could still take action if its demands on boosting local employment in the sector were not met.

20110930
Reuters
LIBREVILLE (Reuters)- Gabon has launched a crackdown on expatriate oil workers who do not have work permits, spurred on by a powerful union that has given the government two weeks to safeguard more jobs for locals.

20110730
Reuters
LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon has ordered the dissolution of one of the Central African country's main opposition groupings after one of its leaders proclaimed himself president in a mock swearing-in ceremony held last January.

20110610
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday pressed Gabon's ruler Ali Bongo Ondimba in a White House meeting to do more to fight corruption and prevent human rights abuse.

20110510
reuters

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba has asked a court to rule on whether the central African oil nation can delay legislative elections by a year to allow it to focus on staging January's Africa Cup of Nations (CAN).

20110129
reuters

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Riot police in Gabon fired tear gas to break up a protest by around 5,000 opposition supporters on Saturday, with witnesses saying that up to 20 people were wounded in the clashes.

20101022
africanews

The President of the Gabonese Republic Ali Bongo Ondimba will make an official three day visit to South Korea from Sunday 24 October at the invitation of his South Korean counterpart, President Lee Myung-bak.

20100914
africanews

Africa's first high level pan-African conference on biodiversity opened in Libreville, on the theme 'Biodiversity and the Fight Against Poverty: What opportunities for Africa?' The opening ceremony on Monday included an address to the audience of scientific experts by Gabon's Environment Minister, Mr Pacome Ruffin Ondzounga, and Mr Serge Bounda, representative of the United Nations Environment Programme in Africa.

20100816
africanews

Gabon has signed $4.5 billion worth of deals with companies from India and Singapore in a bid to revamp infrastructure, improve living standards and diversify the economy of a nation with dwindling oil reserves.

20100816
reuters

LIBREVILLE (Reuters) - Gabon has signed $4.5 billion worth of deals with companies from India and Singapore in a bid to revamp infrastructure, improve living standards and diversify the economy of a nation with dwindling oil reserves.

20100528
africa good news

A Climate Council, charged with developing a National Climate Plan, has been inaugurated by the Republic of Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba.

20100527
Africa News

A Climate Council, charged with developing a National Climate Plan, has been inaugurated by the Republic of Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba.