"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

English version In Gabon, the cheese pyramid of the State is completely locked up by the Bongos and their henchmen. They are the ones who have the management of the public piggybank, who have sumptuous palaces if not imperial, and lots of privileges ... in short, whatever the crisis, these people will never suffer. Those who sank the country are safe and it is the average and poor Gabonese who have to pay. These Gabonese to whom they have stolen everything, including their votes. Those who are killing us will continue with their palatial lifestyle. We must not give up! Version française Au Gabon, la pyramide des fromages de l’Etat est complètement verrouillée par les Bongo et leurs obligés. Ce sont eux qui jouissent de la gestion de la cagnotte publique, qui ont des palais somptueux sinon impériaux, et des tas de privilèges,... bref quelle que soit la crise, ces gens ne souffriront jamais. Ceux qui ont coulé le pays sont à l’abri et c’e...

English version In Gabon, violations of human rights and the many attacks on guarantees and individual freedoms perpetrated by the Bongo regime or by agents closely linked to it, do not surprise anyone. Contemporary Gabon is marked by almost daily episodes that demonstrate gross violations of human rights: Political assassinations, including those of Gabonese citizens from the night of August 31, 2016, to ratify Ali Bongo’s electoral coup d’état; the assassinations for fetishistic purposes to gain political positions; the systematic practice of torture by the security forces; the illegal detentions; the ideological, political and social persecution. The 51 years that the Gabonese people have lived under the Bongos father and son, were a nightmare. That is why we must not give up! Version française Au Gabon, les violations des droits de l’homme et les nombreuses atteintes aux garanties et aux libertés individuelles, perpétrées par le régime Bon...

English version Ali Bongo has just announced the implementation of austerity measures to reduce State spending, he said. We almost want to laugh because in the socio-political and economic panorama of Gabon, for the Gabonese people, it has been a long time since crisis and austerity are the norms of everyday life. For the Gabonese people, all the economic figures have undergone a negative evolution under the Bongos father and son: in the long run, the stagnation then lowering of remunerations compared to the incessant rise of prices; the steady increase of the public debt, which does not yet reach 100% of GDP but is approaching it with great pace because already at 60% today; the systematic refusal of the rulers to adapt to the economic realities, by continuing to organize creepy New-York Africa forums that promised the Gabonese people to solve miraculously all the country’s economic problems, if they would only support Ali Bongo. But dear readers, the downward s...

English version You made massive promises in the past, what have you delivered? Your regime has been in power for 51 years, what are the results? Why do you think you deserved to be elected? Version française Vous avez fait des promesses massives dans le passé, qu'avez-vous réalisé? Votre régime est au pouvoir depuis 51 ans, quels en sont les résultats? Pourquoi pensez-vous que vous méritiez d'être élu?

To read the original click here Pour lire l’original cliquer ici Traduction française Le programme de forage de Trek Metals pourrait fournir une cible d'exploration importante 23 juin 2018 0 Trek Metals, un explorateur coté à l'ASX, a débuté un programme de forage dans son projet phare de Kroussou au Gabon, ciblant le minerai zinc-plomb à ciel ouvert et proche de la surface. Trek Metals est d'avis que le programme de forage de son projet phare pourrait permettre d'atteindre une cible d'exploration importante après achèvement. Trek s'est préparé avec diligence à mettre ce programme en place, car le forage de confirmation achevé l'année dernière a attesté que le potentiel de l'entreprise à mettre sur le marché des ressources zinc-plomb hautement significatives, était réel. L'équipe de Trek a recueilli environ 8000 échantillons de sol, plusieurs centaines de morceaux de cailloux, cartographié géologiquement des...

To read the original article click here Pour lire l’article original cliquer ici Traduction française Fuite des cerveaux - pourquoi cela ne s'arrêtera jamais Des milliers d'étudiants africains partent d'Algérie, du Ghana, du Kenya, d'Afrique du Sud, du Cameroun, de Côte d'Ivoire, d'Egypte, d'Ethiopie, du Gabon, du Malawi, du Togo, de Tunisie, du Nigeria; etc, pour poursuivre des études d’enseignement supérieur hors de leurs pays. Le Canada, les États-Unis, le Royaume-Uni et l'Australie sont les choix les plus populaires pour ces étudiants et il ne serait pas surprenant de voir leur nombre doubler dans les années à venir, bien que de nouvelles destinations de préférence émergent, comme l'Allemagne, la France et la Suisse. la Malaisie et l’Ukraine. Chypre et quelques autres pays européens ne sont pas non plus exclus. Les pays anglophones et les pays francophones étrangers, sont les plus ciblés par ces étudiants africains p...

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English version The Gabonese regime is touting the fact that the IMF is predicting the economic growth to be about 2% in 2018 for the country. This level of growth is absolutely inconsequential for the Gabonese people. First of all, economic growth and development are two terms used usually simultaneously but they have different meanings and one does not necessarily lead to the other. Development is much broader than growth. Economic growth implies increase in national income and per capita income whereas development means overall increase in many aspects of people lives: life expectancy, aces to health and education, reduction of child mortality, improvement of infrastructure, etc. Development means improvement of a number of structural parameters: social, institutional, economic and cultural. Low growth in the range of 1 or 2% indicate that a country is in economic stagnation. This is not the level of economic production that is going to create a direct im...

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English version The management of a country as sparsely populated and rich as is Gabon, should not be limited to asking the average citizen who has no control of anything at all and has been taking the brunt of the regime in place for 50 years, to simply and continuously tighten their belt and wait until tomorrow would be better than today. This is intolerable! But while the population lives the ordeal of a continuing economic downturn, it is the griots of this regime who told us a few years ago, that the fallout of the two African Cup of Nations organized less than 4 years apart, would be substantially beneficial to the people. At the end, where are we? While the regime's griots announce that their economic flagship, BGFI, has made more than 3000 billion CFA francs in 2017, in an environment where Shell in oil, and BNP-Paribas, in the banking sector , left the country, the same regime announced measures of austerities in all directions, with the main target bei...

English version Without qualms and thanks to the mechanism of creating branches capped by the GSEZ, the Gabon Special Economic Zone, which it owns, Olam is in the process of taking control of almost all the Gabonese economy; at least its most lucrative sectors. 1. Timber: all timber cut in Gabon should now transit through Nkok for processing before leaving the country. Nkok is owned by Olam and the Bongos. 2. The Port: Olam controls a large part of the port of Owendo and considering that Bolloré is now in dire strait, let's not be surprised to see Olam recover 100% of the control of this port very soon. 3. The airport: as we are being reminded by the article presented in the image above, Olam now has control of the Libreville airport concession, without paying any money, but reaping all the profits generated. 4. Mines: Olam has already announced its interest in manganese and other minerals extracted from Gabon. 5. Electricity: Olam is seen as the...

English version Dear readers, this blog notices some odd facts: 1. All calls for national reconciliation that are made by people like Mayila are only to the diaspora, and never to the regime. 2. The calls for reconciliation are only a disguise form of asking the Gabonese people to capitulate to Ali Bongo’s imposture. 3. Only the diaspora continues to weekly remind the whole world, by its demonstrations at the Trocadero and elsewhere, of Ali Bongo’s treachery. The diaspora continues to tell the world that in Gabon, elections are rigged, dissidents are arrested and tortured, and children are murdered for their organs. It is because the diaspora brings to light in a courageous and recurring way, the ordeals that Ali Bongo subjects to the Gabonese people, that they would like it to be demobilized and silenced. In response this blog says that the free diaspora will not give up! Version française Chers lecteurs, ce blog rema...

English version Mr. Lee White, would you like for your brethren the Scottish people to be shot upon because they would want to choose their own leaders? Why are you working for the Gabonese dictatorship? Version française Voici la traduction du texte de Lee White : « A l'ouverture du salon du bois au Gabon. Enfin, le Gabon commence à créer de beaux meubles et produits dérivés du bois issu de sources renouvelables. L'Afrique en tant que source de matières premières non transformées devient lentement une chose du passé.» Monsieur Lee White, aimeriez-vous que vos frères et sœurs qui constituent le peuple écossais se fassent tirer dessus parce qu'ils voudraient choisir leurs propres dirigeants? Pourquoi travaillez-vous pour la dictature gabonaise?

To read the original in English click here Pour lire l'original en anglais cliquer ici Traduction française Environnement : le perdant de la ruée vers l’expansion de la capitale gabonaise 22 juin 2018 par Caroline Chauvet "C'est un désastre environnemental", a déclaré Magloire-Désiré Mounganga en marchant sur le sol détrempé et spongieux où les mangroves ont été arrachées pour des constructions près de la capitale gabonaise, Libreville, menaçant ainsi son fragile écosystème. « Ici, les mangroves ont été complètement rasées, vous pouvez même voir les marques laissées par le bulldozer », a déclaré Mounganga, un expert de l'Agence Nationale des Parcs Nationaux du Gabon. Le chemin dans le district d'Angondjé Nton, conduit à une section de grandes maisons appartenant à des gens riches. Les bâtiments sveltes s'élèvent sur un terrain boueux où les mangroves étaient jadis florissantes. Peu à peu, ces petits arbres touf...

English version Euronext is the pan-European stock exchange. The CAC 40 is the French stock market index that tracks the 40 largest French stocks based on the Euronext Paris market capitalization. Total Gabon is traded at the Euronext exchange. For a year now, Total Gabon stock has been on the decline, despite a rise in oil prices. According to the financial press, investors are worried about Total Gabon’s reliability. What this means is not clear but it seems that something is not well with Total Gabon. Version française Euronext est la bourse paneuropéenne. Le CAC 40 est l'indice boursier français qui suit les 40 plus grandes valeurs françaises sur la base de la capitalisation boursière d'Euronext Paris. Total Gabon est coté à la bourse Euronext. Depuis un an, le titre Total Gabon est en chute, malgré une hausse du prix du pétrole. Selon la presse financière, les investisseurs s'inquiètent de la fiabilité de Total Gabon. Ce que c...

English version La Lettre du Continent tells us that Gagan Gupta, the boss of Olam in Gabon, signed a contract in early June with the economic and strategic intelligence group ADIT. ADIT, based in Paris, was established in 1993, specializes in development. This group is headed by Bruno Delaye, former "Monsieur Afrique" to François Mitterrand and Ambassador of France to Togo. Version française La Lettre du Continent nous apprend que Gagan Gupta, le patron d’Olam au Gabon, aurait signé, début juin, un contrat avec le groupe d'intelligence économique et stratégique ADIT. ADIT, basé à Paris, a été créé en 1993, se spécialise dans le développement. Ce groupe a pour patron Bruno Delaye, ex-"Monsieur Afrique" de François Mitterrand et Ambassadeur de la France au Togo.

English version According to La Lettre du Continent, if Lubin Ntoutoume who was cleanly elected president of the Gabonese bar at the end of March 2018, has been summoned to leave this function by the Council of State, at the request of Jean-Pierre Akumbu M ' Oluna, an Ali Bongo’s minion, it is because Lubin Ntoutoume would have defended the Ping camp during the 2016 presidential election. So is Gabon Version française D’après La Lettre du Continent, si Lubin Ntoutoume qui a été pourtant été limpidement élu bâtonnier du barreau du Gabon fin mars 2018, a été sommé de quitter cette fonction par le Conseil d'Etat, sur demande de Jean-Pierre Akumbu M'Oluna, un obligé d’Ali Bongo, c’est parce que Lubin Ntoutoume aurait défendu le camp Ping lors de la présidentielle de 2016. Ainsi va le Gabon

English version La Lettre du Continent informs us that the National Conference on Female Leadership, which was held in Libreville from June 15 to 16, was organized by Laetitia Mebaley, one of Sylvia Bongo's ladies-in-waiting. Laetitia Mebaley went through the National Agency for Investment Promotion (ANPI) before taking care of Gabon Leadership, a thing entrusted to her by Sylvia Bongo, to co-opt young Gabonese women. She is the daughter of Pierre Mebaley, a former Omar Bongo’s minister and shareholder of Ogar, the company of Edouard Valentin, who is the father of Sylvia Bongo. And this explains that! Version française La Lettre du Continent nous informe du fait que la conférence nationale sur le leadership féminin, qui vient de se tenir à Libreville du 15 au 16 Juin, ait été organisée par Laetitia Mebaley, une des dames de compagnie de Sylvia Bongo. Laetitia Mebaley est passee par l'Agence nationale de promotion des investissements (AN...

English version La Lettre du Continent tells us that the Gabon Ports Authority would like to force Bolloré to modify certain clauses of the Owendo Port Management Agreement. Oprag, led by Sayid Abeloko and Landry Régis Laccruche Lelabou, brother of Ali Bongo's chief of staff, Brice Laccruche Alihanga, reportedly sent to Bolloré and Olam’s clients, co-managers of the port of Owendo, a letter indicating to them that henceforth, they should pay to them directly the sums and taxes collected as part of the operation of the port. This measure is explained by Oprag as being the consequence of the too favorable terms of the port concession contract granted to the Bolloré group, and that it has no choice but to recover this shortfall from the users of the port. The concession of the port of Owendo had been granted to Bolloré by Ali Bongo, for the amount of 146 million euros. Version française La Lettre du Continent nous dit que l'Office des P...