"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

English version This Sunday, October 25, two pictures of Gabonese football overlapped. In Barcelona, CBON took his seat in the presidential box at the Spotify Camp Nou for El Clásico. In Baku, our U-15 Panthéreaux collapsed 1-9 against Latvia. Scheduling coincidence doesn't explain everything. It highlights a question many Gabonese are asking: where does the real priority lie when it comes to football in Gabon? Baku: a world first that turns into a nightmare Gabon is playing in the very first FIFA U-15 World Cup and Festival, held from October 24 to 30 in Azerbaijan. It is also our country's first appearance at a FIFA world competition in any category. Gabon is one of 78 federations experiencing a World Cup for the first time at this event. On October 22, just two days before kickoff, Fégafoot announced a 14-player squad drawn from local programs. Drawn into Group I with Lesotho, Scotland, Bulgaria and Latvia, the Panthéreaux have had a very difficult start to the tournament: D...

English version   A drilling rig sank on Saturday evening off the coast of Nyanga province with 115 people on board. The death toll is changing by the hour, an investigation has been opened and production at the Dussafu field has been halted. The facts On Saturday, October 24, 2026, at around 8:37 p.m., the Prospector 5 jack-up drilling rig sank on the Dussafu Marine oil permit, off Mayumba in Nyanga province. The rig is owned and operated by the Norwegian driller Borr Drilling. BW Energy had hired it for a new drilling campaign, and it had not yet started drilling. According to BW Energy, the rig lost stability during jacking operations. This is the stage when the legs are lowered to the seabed to lift the hull above the water. At this stage, the trade press points to a "punch-through." This is when the ground under one of the legs suddenly gives way, the leg sinks deeper than planned, and the rig tilts and then sinks. This explanation is still preliminary. A death toll that...