"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

English version La Lettre du Continent tells us that Maixent Accrombessi and his wife Evelyne Diatta were recently heard by Judge Roger Le Loire, for the investigation of the corruption scandal of the equipment company Marck. This was the third appearance of Maixent Accrombessi before the French judicial authorities for this case. He was indicted in July of last year for corruption, forgery and money laundering. In total, the case involves an amount of 2.3 million euros, or 1.5 billion CFA francs. In this case, the role of Evelyne Diatta could be to have had these funds go through some of her accounts, which would be money laundering. Dear readers; in the meantime in Gabon, Bertand Zibi is being tortured in prison! We will not give up. Traduction française La Lettre du Continent nous apprend que Maixent Accrombessi et son épouse Evelyne Diatta, ont été entendus récemment par le juge Roger Le Loire, pour l’instruction du scandale pour c

English version Ali Bongo has abused and killed the Gabonese people. For 50 years, he and his family have stolen democracy from the people, suppressing their human rights and denying to them their right to a decent and prosperous life. It’s time for him to go and for that family to leave us alone. Anybody can see the ravages done by the Bongo family in Gabon, by walking through the neighborhoods of any city in Gabon. How is it that an oil and mineral-rich country has systematically failed to provide for the Gabonese people? How come that the Bongos are unable to provide better access to housing, health care, nutrition and education, along with significant reductions in poverty? How the Bongos have succeeded in 50 years, in only 1 thing: to enrich themselves. Today, Gabon is an entrenched dictatorship! Faced with declining revenues, a contracting economy, and more importantly street protests by a revived resistance determined to control its destiny, the regime i

English version Apparently, the apparatchiks of the established order such as Louis Gaston Mayila, having lived in the heart of Omar Bongo’s power and knowing what Gabon represents in the eyes of the tutelary power, France, also knowing that democracy as experienced elsewhere is not desired by the Ali Bongo regime, have decided to push us to negotiate our surrender and submission, to our torturers. Our protestation is a huge obstacle to Ali Bongo. The solution for Louis Gaston Mayila is to ask us to give up by negotiating with Ali Bongo. Our answer is simple: NO! We will not give up. Traduction française Apparemment, les apparatchiks de l’ordre établi tel Louis Gaston Mayila, ayant vécu au cœur du pouvoir Omar Bongo et sachant ce que représente le Gabon aux yeux de la puissance tutélaire la France, sachant aussi que la démocratie tel que vécue ailleurs n’est pas souhaitée par le régime Ali Bongo, ont décidé de nous pousser à négocier notre re

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English version Ali Bongo uses torture as a means to an end. He wants to send a message to the Gabonese people that anybody opposing him will be dealt with violently. Torture is used to dehumanize the Gabonese people in order to make it easier to dominate them. He uses the physical body of the victim as a tool to achieve the aims of psychologically warning the population. Ali Bongo uses torture to try to destroy the courage and thirst for autonomy of the Gabonese people. He hopes that the fear of torture will suppress independent thought and convert people to the 'right-thinking' which is to accept the Bongo’s monarchy. Dictators have individual tortured until they abandon their own views and beliefs and adopt those of the torturers. They want the victim to cease to believe in themselves but to become just another zombie who supports the regime of the torturer. We will not give up. Traduction française Ali Bongo utilise la tort

English version Imagine a mother who is presented with a son physically impaired, bearing the traces still fresh and stained with blood barely coagulated, of brutal torture session, at the hands of agents of the Ali bongo’s regime. Imagine a mother discovering that her son was tied up, hooded and beaten like an animal. Imagine what this lady is going through, her concern for her son, her concern for the arbitrariness of the Gabonese justice system, the surreal conditions of the Gabonese penal system; and ask yourself, what is all of this for? What crime has her son committed to be subjected to this treatment? Imagine those people who have imprisoned her son; do they consider themselves human? Do they have any sense of decency? Do they think that they would live and rule eternally? In mature societies, torture is banned. Gabon has signed all international conventions related to the banishment of torture. Why is this lady’s son still being torture by Ali Bo

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English version In a representative democracy, it is the Parliament that represents citizens. This system is also called delegative democracy, because citizens express their will through elected representatives, to whom they delegate their powers. These elected representatives of the people, vote the laws and control the action of the government; at least in true democracies! For representative democracy to be effective, every citizen must be equally represented in parliament. In other words, citizens from all corners of the country must have the same representation in parliament. When one region has more votes per inhabitant, in parliament than another, we find ourselves in a case of insufficient representativeness, because the citizens of the region with the most representation necessarily have an advantage over the other citizens of the country; which is not allowed in a democracy. In Gabon, the province of Haut-Ogooué, after the announcement of the

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English version The surrounding was sober and modest; the lady who was testifying and her message were the same. The testimony given by Mrs. Oyougou had for frame and structure the dignity of a woman who agrees to survive a personal hell instead of giving in to her tormentors and those of her husband. Mrs. Oyougou, in clear terms, without verbal gymnastics, spoke to us about the noble and oh so crucial struggle of the construction of the Gabonese nation. A fight whose framework should be the reconciliation between Gabonese, the building of a durable social and political peace, whose conditions should be solidarity and progress shared by all the components of the nation. By directly questioning those in power who are responsible for the incarceration, for his opinions, of her husband, this testimony, in its truth, is the ultimate victory of the just, over the camp of death and imposture. Because few Gabonese victims of the Bongo regime, ever give

English version From a travel ban from the territory to lawsuits in Gabon, La Lettre du Continent informs us that Ali Bongo is proceeding with a strategy of progressive asphyxiation of Jean Ping. Ali Bongo's judicial system is used to harass Jean Ping through Marie-Christine Lebama who is close to the president of the Constitutional Court, Marie-Madeleine Mborantsuo. Pascal Oyougou, one of the leaders of the Heritage and Modernity (H & M) group, was arrested for no particular reason and this arrest serves as a motive for Jean Ping's legal harassment because the regime claims that Oyougou cited Jean Ping in activities so far not elucidated. Ali Bongo wants to diminish Jean Ping’ support. La Lettre du Continent confirms the open secret that Guy Nzouba Ndama is back in the box of the regime. This publication finally tells us that Ali Bongo should launch a charm operation toward several figures of the Union Nationale with the ultimate goal of bringin

English version It is not only the Gabonese resistance that is interested in the Pozzo di Borgo; La Lettre du Continent tells us that this property would also be the target of Ali Bongo's creditors. The Kontinental group has indeed seized the capital of the SCI which manages the Pozzo di Borgo. But damn, it turns out that this property was already the targer of another creditor. The explanations of La Lettre du Continent tell us that the Pozzo di Borgo is in fact the subject of several liens following financial disputes. The latest one comes from Frédéric Bérenger, the boss of the Kontinental group; which in December 2017 asked its lawyers to seize 6000 shares of the capital of the Real Estate Company managing the Pozzo di Borgo; company itself managed by Maixent Accrombessi. The Kontinental group is said to have been successful suing the Gabonese State before the jurisdictions of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The 6000 shares in questi

English version According to Africa Energy Intelligence, Perenco's takeover of some of Total Gabon's oil fields in May 2017 has made waves in the Petroleum Directorate of the Gabonese Petroleum Ministry. Following the acquisition by Perenco of the ten fields that belonged to Total, a significant drop in the share of oil production going to the Gabonese State, was observed. This has angered Ali Bongo and caused the dismissal of the Director of hydrocarbons. According to Africa Energy Intelligence, the Managing Director of Gabon Oil Co (GOC), Arnauld Engandji, recently traveled to Paris, to negotiate with the leaders of the trader Vitol, a solution to the decline in the quantity of crude oil that the Gabonese State will be able to sell in 2018. A habitual purchaser of the Gabonese production, Vitol would have already advanced tens of billions of CFA francs to the Gabonese State. But unfortunately, the purchase of several Total fields by Perenco, has resulted

English version Dear readers, the map above is from a recent British geological study showing, showing that Liberia is indeed one of the luckiest countries in the world with vast amount of untapped, and never exploited natural resources. This is an indication of the reality of Africa as we have always known it to be. So many countries blessed with natural minerals, with arable soil suitable for agriculture production such as cocoa, coffee, banana etc. It is not an exaggeration to say that Africa could surpass other continents, overtime, in terms of development if its leaders open their eyes and put their nations above their personal interest. If Dubai was able to develop with only 3.5billion barrels of oil, surely African could do more with its vast riches! Traduction française Chers lecteurs, la carte ci-dessus provient d'une récente étude géologique britannique, démontrant que le Liberia est en effet l'un des pays les plus chanceux du mo

English version In Jeune Afrique, the Cameroonian-born journalist Georges Dougueli, complains against the African diasporas who hunt down the members of African dictatorial nomenklaturas during their travels to the West. Dougueli does not appreciate at all what these African diasporas are doing, going so far as to call these diasporas, brainless brutes. But us, on this blog, note the following curiosities: When Ali Bongo murdered dozens of Gabonese in 2016, no one has the memory of a single article by Georges Dougueli condemning these heinous acts of repression against a defenseless population. When Sassou Nguesso murdered dozens of Congolese who opposed him last year, no one has the memory of having read a single article by Georges Dougueli condemning these murders of dozens of defenseless people. As for Cameroon, Paul Biya recently massacred English-speaking people, nobody can recall to have read a single article of Georges Dougueli, exhorting the