Aims to ease supply disruptions, boost rural access, and create local jobs. Gabon is advancing on the long-awaited Alembé-Mikouyi road development and paving project, a 300-kilometer stretch crossing ...

Libreville - The Gabon government rejected allegations on Wednesday of deaths and torture in its expulsion of hundreds of illegal workers from a gold panning site, but said it would back an inquiry. A ...

Gabon 's junta chief Brice Oligui Nguema has won the presidential election with 90.35 percent of the vote, according to provisional results released Sunday by the interior ministry. Oligui, who ...

With nearly 90% forest cover, Gabon is home to a biodiverse landscape that prompts the need for both conservation and environmental education among young generations. Environmental educator Léa ...

Gabon currently has two properties inscribed on the World Heritage List, the Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape Lopé - Okanda and the Ivindo National Park, inscribed in 2021 at the 44th enlarged ...

In Gabon, communities have protested a UAE-based company's plans for a eucalyptus monoculture plantation that would also generate carbon credits.

A quarter of the TRIDOM landscape is now under protection, encompassed by eleven protected areas. Of these, southern Cameroon’s Mengame Gorilla Sanctuary at 26,780 hectares is one of the smallest.

Bas Huijbregts WWF’s African Species Director, Wildlife Conservation Program Bas leads WWF’s work on wildlife conservation in Africa, focusing primarily on elephants, great apes, and rhinos. The most ...

In 2011, five African countries—Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe—signed a treaty to create the world’s largest transboundary conservation area. About the size of California and the ...

Inscription of new World Heritage sites CAWHFI efforts have led to the inscription of three of the eight Congo Basin forest sites on the World Heritage List: - Ecosystem and Relict Cultural Landscape ...

Gabon's coup marked the eighth to occur in West and Central Africa since 2020. It came about a month after a military junta in Niger ousted the West African nation's democratically elected government.

Gabon’s new military leader was sworn in as the head of state on Monday, less than a week after ousting the president whose family had ruled the Central African nation for more than five decades.