Full Coverage: Gabon
12/17/2004
Gabon's taxi drivers have been enlisted in the campaign to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [HIV/AIDS] Image: Libreville taxi © United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network
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01/28/2004
Four days of rioting by secondary school students in Libreville highlighted a growing frustration with education cutbacks in Gabon, a country that grew rich on oil, but which is now struggling to cope with a steady decline in production.
MoreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [West Africa] [Education] [Poverty] |
09/06/2002
A full 10 percent of the landmass of Gabon will be set aside for a system of national parks, the government announced this week.
Read moreFrom: Environment News Service (ENS) Related: [Land] [Environment] |
12/13/2001
Gabon has appealed for international help to cope with an outbreak of ebola fever about 700 kilometres north of the capital, Libreville.
Read moreFrom: allAfrica.com Related: [Health] |
07/06/2001
Tens of thousands of refugees who have sought safety from Sierra Leone and Liberia are still falling prey to serious abuses in Guinea, according to a new report.
Read moreFrom: Human Rights Watch Related: [Liberia] [Sierra Leone] [West Africa] [Human Rights] [Conflict] |
07/06/2001
Tens of thousands of refugees who have sought safety from war-torn Sierra Leone and Liberia are still falling prey to serious abuses in Guinea, according to a new report.
Read moreFrom: Human Rights Watch Related: [Liberia] [Sierra Leone] [West Africa] [Human Rights] [Conflict] |
06/15/2001
Gabon police have arrested a man suspected of chartering a Nigerian-registered ship found carrying dozens of children into slavery in April.
Read moreFrom: Anti-Slavery International Related: [Children] [Human Rights] |
05/02/2001
A boat which left the port of Cotonou, Benin, in mid-March was carrying children to work as domestics and labourers in Gabon and Cameroon, Benin government and United Nations officials have confirmed.
Read moreFrom: United Nations' Integrated Regional Information Network Related: [Cameroon] [Benin] [Children] [Labor] |
04/30/2001
Rather than insist on the cancellation of all their debts that may bankrupt the IMF and the World Bank, African ministers said Saturday that they would prefer an increase in the flow of other resources from developed countries to their countries.
Read moreFrom: allAfrica.com Related: [Niger] [Sierra Leone] [Tanzania ] [Debt] Image: Carrying water in Niger © Josh Estey/CARE 2001 / CARE USA
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04/16/2001
There was growing concern about the fate of a group of children held on a slave ship that has gone missing off the west coast of Africa. The vessel was reportedly transporting the children from Benin to work on plantations in Gabon but was turned away from two ports when its cargo was discovered.
Read moreFrom: Guardian Unlimited Related: [Benin] [West Africa] [Children] [Labor] [Human Rights] |
12/18/2000
Hundreds of Bangladeshi women sent to work as home helpers in Gulf nations each year are abused and exploited by unscrupulous employers, say rights groups.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service Related: [Bahrain] [Bangladesh] [Kuwait] [Qatar] [Saudi Arabia] [United Arab Emirates] [Labor] [Migration] [Gender] |
06/19/2000
European and Asian demand for timber is stripping large swathes of the world's second largest tropical forest which spreads across Cameroon and Gabon, warn two new reports.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service Related: [Cameroon] [Forests] |
04/28/2000
Refugees who fled the Republic of Congo for neighbouring Gabon when fighting flared last year are staying put in spite of a ceasefire brokered in December.
Read moreFrom: Newslink Africa Ltd Related: [Congo] [Refugees] [Conflict] |
06/25/1999
Several thousand disabled squatters in Gabon have occupied empty government buildings to raise the profile of problems faced by homeless people.
Read moreFrom: Inter Press Service Related: [Shelter & Housing] [Disability] |



