"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

    English version   Pauline Nyingone, in 1993, at the height of the dictatorship, dared to say no to the injustice and arbitrariness imposed on the Gabonese people, by Omar Bongo and his main minions in the theft of elections: Antoine Mboumbou-Miyakou and one Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo. For this, the dictatorship took everything away from here during the 30 years that followed; all? No, she still had her dignity intact!   For the one-year celebration of the events of August 30, 2023 that brought him to power, Brice-Clotaire Oligui-Nguema awarded Mrs. Pauline Gningone the medal of the National Order of Liberation.   When we know the history of Gabon, how can the CTRIstes justify the cerebral gymnastics necessary to want to convince us of the fact that on the one hand, Brice-Clotaire Oligui-Nguema can recognize Mrs. Pauline Nyingone as a Gabonese heroine for what she did in 1993; and on the other, that he rehabilitates the one by whom the catastrophe of 1993 was inflict

      Version fran ç aise   Dans un jeu du chat et de la souris, les pétroliers russes arborent de nouveaux drapeaux   Un réseau nébuleux de navires s'est immatriculé au Gabon, démontrant comment Vladimir V. Poutine construit une économie hors de portée des sanctions occidentales.   Par Rebecca R. Ruiz et Jacob Judah 3 octobre 2024     Le Jaguar, un pétrolier d’une longueur de près de cinq piscines olympiques, a quitté un port près de Saint-Pétersbourg, en Russie, l'année dernière, à destination de l'Inde, chargé de pétrole russe.   Son voyage ce printemps-là a eu lieu alors que les autorités occidentales essayaient frénétiquement de reconstituer le réseau auquel il appartenait : un nébuleux réseau de navires ayant des propriétaires cachés sur lesquels de puissants Russes comptaient pour transporter le précieux pétrole du pays.   Mais par une bizarrerie de l'industrie du transport maritime, le Jaguar avait des liens avec l'occident.

      English version   The ignorant asserts, the expert doubts, the wise reflects; Aristotle advises us. Reading the numerous mails from the CTRIstes, we realize their great ignorance, so deliberately peremptory are their affirmations. They know that in Gabon there is no better person than Mborantsuo to plead the cause of Gabon in The Hague.   Popular wisdom teaches us, however, that cemeteries are filled with people who thought they were indispensable. The people who, as Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo seems, believe themselves indispensable, are also often those who think that the world cannot do without them. But for this blog, unfortunately for them, life goes by and like everyone else, they often pass away without having left an essential trace for people to remember them as important beings. What will the Gabonese people remember about Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo when she is no longer with us?   No one is indispensable, because whatever one's social position or r

      English version   Samuel Johnson, an 18 th century English intellectual, was indeed right when he wrote that "Patriotism is the last refuge for a scoundrel”. What he meant by that was that patriotism is often abused by scoundrels who use it as a shield, as an emotional concept to get people to do what they want them to do, even against their interests.   For Brice-Clotaire Oligui-Nguema, it makes sense to ask such a despicable person as Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo to lead a Gabonese delegation to the International Court of Justice, under the justification that she is going there to plea a case for Gabon. This reason is unacceptable to us.   The CTRIsts know that on the issue of Mborantsuo, they have no credibility and they are attempting to support their argument of why it was OK for Mborantsuo to represent Gabon in the Hague, by appealing to the hearts and minds of the Gabonese public opinion, by using patriotism. Their argument is: be a patriot and suppor