"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

      English version   Dear readers, many of you ask us to explain the slaughter that is happening at the moment in Gabon, because many people still active and barely entering old age, are leaving us.   This blog would like to reassure you. There is no spell befalling Gabon. What is happening is only in the normal order of things from the statistical point of view, if we refer to the curve of life expectancy in Gabon published by the World Bank (above). Gabon invests little in the health of its population; and the consequence is that its population dies relatively young. It doesn't get any more complicated than that!   Currently, the average life expectancy of a Gabonese is about 65 years; which would mean that if we remove the 20% who die before the age of 20 and the 20% who live beyond 70, the majority of Gabonese do not exceed the age of 65. The concentration of mortality is between 55 and 65 years. Today, if you were born between 1956 (65) and 1966 (55),

          English version   Passports are key and indispensable for international travel. There is an international ranking of all the passports in the world using the criteria of which passports can get their holders into the most countries in the world free of the need for visa. This international ranking is called the Henley Passport Index. It’s 2021 edition has just been published and can be found here . The ranking involves 180 countries and Gabon is number 91 in the world and 29 in Africa.         Version française   Les passeports sont essentiels et indispensables pour les voyages internationaux. Il existe un classement international de tous les passeports dans le monde qui utilise le critère évaluant les passeports selon qu’ils puissent faire entrer leurs détenteurs dans la plupart des pays du monde sans avoir besoin de visa. Ce classement international s’appelle le Henley Passport Index. Son édition 2021 vient d’être publiée et peut être trouv

 

 

    To read click here Pour lire cliquer ici     English version   In an article, the newspaper Le Monde informs us that a scientific team, certainly mandated by Lee White, would have decided to place under surveillance, traditional hunters from Lastourville, in southern Gabon. These researchers would be concerned about the impact our hunters are having on our animal and plant ecosystems.   Westerners will never change. Perenco pollutes abundantly in the Ogooué-Maritime and we have never heard that Lee White asked scientists to put Perenco under observation to measure the impact that this company has on Gabonese ecology. But our traditional hunters, who have been practicing very conservative hunting methods for centuries, are under scientific surveillance. It’s a Topsy-turvy world.   What is more revolting is that there are Gabonese who accept the idea that Westerners who have destroyed their own ecosystems in Europe, where there have practically not been an