"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

    English version   Less than 10 days ago, Israeli Ambassador to Ethiopia, Burundi and Chad, Aleli Admasu presented his credentials to the Chairman of the AU Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, for his country being granted observer’s membership in the African Union.   As a reminder, no African country is an observer member of a regional organization specific to an area outside Africa. No head of an African central bank sits on the board of a European central bank; however, Europeans have seats on the boards of the African Development Bank and African regional central banks.   Why do Africans like to be humiliated by conceding to others privileges that these people would never grant Africans? Why ?         Version française   Il y a moins de 10 jours, l'ambassadeur israélien en Ethiopie, Burundi et Chad, Aleli Admasu a présenté ses lettres de créances au président de la Commission de l'UA, Moussa Faki Mahamat, pour l’adhésion de son pays comme membr

 

 

 

 

    English version   Sylvia Bongo has just had a Maybach 4X4 vehicle delivered, the price of which is over 100 million CFA francs. The question that all Gabonese must ask themselves is that of knowing where the Bongos find this money, in a country where the roads, schools and hospitals are underfunded?   For example, the British Royal family is one of the richest families in the world; but British citizens know exactly where this money is coming from. One of the main sources of annual income for the British crown is the "sovereign grant" paid to them by the British State. This grant is used to pay for the official functions of members of the Royal family, their official trips, the official receptions they organize and the upkeep of the royal palaces. The total amount of this subsidy is 95 million euros, or 62 billion CFA francs per year. For the English, things are clear.   In Gabon, an underdeveloped country that lacks almost everything, the Bongos, who are in