"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

 

English version  He left in 2001 to study and was supposed to come back to teach. On October 5, 2026, Dieudonné Ella Oyono won 12,983 votes, or 39% of the ballots cast, and with a lead of nearly 6,000 votes, the Parti Québécois candidate won his first term in Quebec's National Assembly. His journey begins here at home. He studied economics at UOB, where he earned a DEA (advanced postgraduate degree), then, at 27, left Gabon to pursue a PhD in economics at UQAM. Nothing was handed to him. A Parti Québécois activist since 2012, he ran in Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne in 2018, without success. He persevered. In November 2019, he became the first African to lead the party, founded in 1968. Seven years later, it was the voters who chose him. His path raises questions. How many UOB graduates could have served their country, had they found at home a system that rewards work rather than connections Quebec recognized what Gabon failed to keep. Ella Oyono's success makes us proud, but it also ...

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 ...

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 ...