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Appointments in Gabon: Still Trapped by Geopolitics in 2026! Nominations au Gabon : en 2026, toujours prisonniers de la géopolitique!

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English version  On October 16, GabonReview reported on a WhatsApp group in which senior Fang civil servants from the Estuaire province denounce their exclusion from the top levels of government. According to them, the latest cabinet reshuffle cut their community's presence in government from four ministers to two, and they no longer hold a single director-general or ministry secretary-general post. Beyond this particular case, the affair says something broader, and more troubling: in 2026, we are still counting positions by province and by ethnic group. An unwritten rule that everyone applies In Gabon, everyone knows about "geopolitics," even though no text defines it. The principle is simple: every province and every major community must see its people represented in ministries, the civil service and state-owned companies. Made into a method of government under Omar Bongo Ondimba, this unwritten rule was meant to contain rivalries in a country where no single group can ...
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Africa Sits on Energy, Yet Lives in the Dark! L'Afrique assise sur l'énergie, mais plongée dans le noir!

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English version  Oil, gas, sunshine, rivers: Africa lacks none of the world's energy sources. Yet the 2025 global production figures tell a different story. The entire continent accounts for 7.6% of world oil output, while the United States alone produces 20%. For gas, it is 5.7% against 25.4%. And the gap becomes dizzying when we look at the energies of tomorrow: 1.2% of global wind power, 1.2% of solar, 0.4% of nuclear. China alone produces 40% of the planet's solar power. A Gap Measured in Human Lives Behind these percentages are families. Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 86% of the global electricity access deficit in 2024, with 563 million people still living without power, according to the latest SDG 7 tracking report. Worse, the problem is not shrinking: between 2022 and 2024, the region recorded an average of 42 million new connections a year, while its population grew by roughly 38 million a year. In other words, we are running just to stand still. Central Africa, our ...
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HOW CAN MBORANTSUO BE INTERVIEWED WITHOUT ASKING HER A SINGLE QUESTION ABOUT THE LOST ISLANDS CASE? COMMENT PEUT-ON INTERVIEWER MBORANTSUO SANS LUI POSER UNE SEULE QUESTION SUR L’AFFAIRE DES ÎLES PERDUES ?

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English version  While watching this one-hour broadcast entitled "Mémoire d'une Nation" (aired in mid-October 2026 on Gabon Première), the total absence of any reference to the Mbanié, Conga, and Cocotiers islands dispute is one of the greatest paradoxes of this interview. Yet, Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo was the leading figure (as the representative and co-agent of Gabon) defending Gabonese sovereignty over these territories before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague. What explains why the journalist, Christian Kombila, completely evaded the subject? A very recent national and personal setback (May 2025)  The ICJ verdict, delivered in May 2025, was a crushing blow for Gabon: the Court ruled in favor of Equatorial Guinea. It deemed that the famous 1974 "Bata Convention," the document upon which Mborantsuo and the Gabonese state based their entire legal argument, had no legal validity. Bringing up this issue would amount to questioning Mrs. Mbora...
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