"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

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English version In today's Gabon, we must be clear and classify people with on the one hand those who saw clearly and behaved well toward the people; and on the other, those who have been blinded by foolishness, naivety, blissful veneration towards this or that political figure, or who have simply proved to be cowards; or those who simply acted with cruelty toward the people. We all know that bishops and priests see themselves as spiritual guides with an authority without nuance. It is here that the fact that the highest person in the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Gabon, compromising themselves alongside a bloody dictatorial regime, violating the rights of the Gabonese people with constant recidivism, should lead us to complain to the serious episcopates above Gabonese Catholicism, so that the nuisance that is Basile Mve is evicted. By continuously supporting the Bongo regime, by never protesting against human rights violations, and considering it no...

Basile Mve, second from left Basile Mve, second de la gauche English version While in other countries, the heads of religious orders are known for confronting their country’s government and military if they happen to oppress the people and steal the resources; in Gabon, people like Bishop Basile Mve, the head of the Catholic Church, can be predictably found always on the side of the dictatorial regime, participating in the oppression of the people. At no time has Basile Mve ever been concerned about the violence levelled on the Gabonese people by the Ali Bongo’s regime. In principle, the goal of the Catholic Church is to improve the lives of the poor and to promote freedom. The clergy normally gets involved in things like education, peasant cooperatives etc., but in Gabon, Basile Mve is serving only the regime. At no point has he ever asked for his friend Ali Bongo to stop the repression, to stop killing innocent people! At Ali Bongo’s dialogue, Basile Mve is ...

English version For airfare Paris-Libreville on Air-France in economy class, you pay from 899 euros, which is about 590000 CFA francs. For the same airline ticket from Paris to Libreville in economy class, you pay from 899 euros, which is about 359000 CFA francs; this is about 231000 CFA francs difference. But strangely enough, Air France on its line Paris-Johannesburg which is 4 hours longer than that of Libreville, prices the ticket at 756 dollars, which is 461069 dollars; that is 120000 cheaper than the flight to Libreville which takes only 6h30min. Version française Billet d’avion Paris-Libreville sur Air-France en classe économique, vous payez à partir de 899 euros, c'est-à-dire environ 590000 francs CFA. Le même billet d’avion Paris-Libreville sur Ethiopian Airlines en classe économique, vous payez à partir de 547,42 euros, c'est-à-dire environ 359000 francs CFA. C’est 231000 francs CFA de différence. Mais curieusement, A...

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To read click here Pour lire cliquer ici Traduction française Le déclin de l'industrie du pétrole provoque l’incertitude économique au Gabon Charles Lekabi vivait confortablement comme chauffeur pour une compagnie pétrolière dans la ville industrielle du Gabon de Port Gentil, jusqu'à ce qu'il fût mis au chômage il y a trois ans. «Aujourd'hui, j'ai du mal à payer mon loyer», a déclaré Lekabi, qui avait travaillé pour la compagnie pétrolière française Total pendant sept ans avant d'être licencié pour des raisons économiques. «Depuis que j'ai été licencié, j'ai acheté une voiture pour faire le taxi. Au moins avec cette voiture, je peux continuer à nourrir ma famille. Une chute brutale des prix du pétrole en 2014 a frappé l'industrie pétrolière mondiale. Au Gabon, membre de l'OPEP, la production est en déclin, la reprise est lente et pourrait ne pas avoir lieu du tout. Le secteur pétrolier a représenté 80% ...

English version It's weird, but Ali Bongo's supporters look sad, and yet they are in power and nobody is shooting at them. Looking at them, we clearly feel that they do not like to be photographed in adulation posture to their hero. Perhaps they know that posterity is often cruel to the minions, for tomorrow, when Ali Bongo will be nothing but a painful memory, these images will be able to restore their role at a time when the Gabonese people were fighting for their freedom. These people know that in one way or another, people pay for everything! We will never let them off the hook! Version française C’est bizarre, mais les partisans d’Ali Bongo ont triste mine, et pourtant ils ont le pouvoir et personne ne leur tire dessus. A les regarder, on sent clairement qu’ils n’aiment pas se faire photographier en posture d’adulation à leur héro. Peut-être savent-ils que la postérité est souvent cruelle envers les larbins, car demain, quand Ali...

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English version In an interview published by Gabonreview, Jonathan Ntoutoume-Ngome, of Démocratie Nouvelle, seems to argue that the resistance observed for some time by many Gabonese against the Ali Bongo regime, which he has joined, is a dead end. To what this blog replies to him that it is the sycophancy and compromise in which he finds himself stuck, which are paths without a future. We explain. For this blog, Mr. Jonathan Ntoutoume-Ngome’s argument is not only incoherent, but mainly shows confusion. In his view, it seems that one can only take a position in the political debate in Gabon if one draws something immediately from it. No he is mistaken. The motivations of the Gabonese people to resist against Ali Bongo, are multiform. But we can agree on one thing, on a common denominator, who would like the Gabonese people to reject as a whole, the postulate of the regime which still considers in an archaic way that power is its exclusive monopoly. For us who de...

Marie Madeleine Mborantsuo (photo AFP) English version "As far as I know the wages of a president of the Constitutional Court for thirty years cannot justify the accumulation of such wealth. It actually confirms what we have always said, that we have a regime or a government of predation of public resources. And when we look at the amounts that are mentioned, we realize that this predation concerns those who are at the head of the institutions and we understand better why these institutions often take one-sided decisions. The Constitutional Court did not make its decisions based on the law, it pronounced them based on opportunism and in defense of its interests! There is nothing to be expected from this Constitutional Court or from the person who directs it. So we will not even waste our time asking for her resignation. It is dignified people who resign! " Version française « A ce que je sache les salaires d’un président de la Cour const...

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English version The political group Heritage and Modernity has just clarified its position in relation to the dialogue of Ali Bongo and the legislative that will be its corollary. The answer of this grouping is simple: no for one and no for the other. It's consistent! We congratulate them because the members of this group are in phase with the Gabonese people! We will not give up! Version française Le groupement politique Héritage et Modernité vient de clarifier sa position par rapport au dialogue d’Ali Bongo et des législatives qui en seront le corolaire. La réponse de ce groupement est simple : non pour l’un et non pour l’autre. C’est cohérent ! Nous les félicitons car les membres de ce groupement sont en phase avec le peuple Gabonais ! On ne lâche rien !

English version Dear readers, you would remember that well before the 2016 presidential election, Maixent Accrombessi, the all-powerful Chief of Staff of Ali Bongo at the time, was indicted in France for corruption. This was the beginning of the downfall that led to a fortuitous stroke right before the election and an exfiltration with family far from the Gabonese borders, for a definite departure from the country, and from its governance. Accrombessi had become cumbersome; Ali Bongo’s bosses of Ali Bongo got rid of him. Today, the same Ali Bongo’s bosses, want to make him more palatable to the Gabonese people. An impossible mission. But they are trying their all. Ali Bongo must get rid of some people he is dragging like a cannonball. There is no worse bitchy lady in Gabon than the putrid Marie Madeleine Mborantsuo. It seems that the brain trust that controls Ali Bongo has ruled that getting rid of Mborantsuo could give a sense of approval of him, to the Gabonese p...

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English version While the Gabonese people are firmly opposed to any compromise with Ali Bongo, many elements of the opposition are now lining up to go to the legislative elections organized by Ali Bongo and his clique of plunderers. Those who claim to be of the opposition, while going against the popular will to not deal with this regime, express before our eyes that they are not working for us but to help Ali Bongo to continue his reign. These compatriots will come to tell us their novel, but their incoherence must be our only guide. They are no longer on the same wavelength as us and we must continue without them. They are free to sign a pact with Ali Bongo, but of that bread we do not eat! If some of our compatriots want to lock us into a logic of acceptance of Ali Bongo, we say no. Knowing that only the sovereign people can decide on their future, we must mobilize to tell the regime and the members of the opposition who are willing to collaborate, that we will ...

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