"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

 

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  To whom does Akanda belong? A qui appartient Akanda?     English version   Who owns Akanda? Who owns the lands of Cap Esterias in the Gabon Estuary? Do indigenous people have no rights to their ancestral lands? Do the Benga and Sekiani, who have been living on these lands for centuries, have no land rights today?   Dear readers, the Ali and Sylvia Bongo regime has made the Gabonese waterfront its main objective in its race to capture Gabon's land.   In Gabon, land regulations remain a project to be built. There are laws, but land in Gabon remains a jungle where scams and corruption are omnipresent. In such circumstances, how can you protect yourself against a predatory state that wants to take your land away from you and give it to private individuals? This is the question facing the Benga and Sekiani, the historic landowners of Cape Esterias.   What is the current legal status of customary land ownership in Gabon? Is there a ...

      English version   Dear readers, a sector that demonstrates the ineptitude of our rulers is that of the anarchic urbanization of our cities, mainly Libreville, where citizens are left to fend for themselves, settling in any way, without a master plan or means of modernization and upgrading, which leads to a very strong proximity between the public buildings supposed to represent the State, and the slums circled in red in the images above.   The consequence is that Libreville is characterized by the informal and anarchic nature of private constructions. This disorderly urbanization leads to the expansion of slums.   Even organizing urbanization is beyond the capabilities of the Bongo regimes         Version française   Chers lecteurs, un secteur qui démontre l’incurie de nos gouvernants est celui de l’urbanisation anarchique de nos villes, principalement de Libreville, où les citoyens sont laiss...

 

    English version   An Article by The New York Times By Matt Apuzzo, Constant Méheut, Selam Gebrekidan and Catherine Porter May 26, 2022     Every sentence of the invitation ended with an inky flourish, a triple loop of calligraphy befitting a night of dinner, dancing and fireworks at Haiti’s national palace.   Debt had smothered the country for more than half a century. Despite ousting its colonial rulers in a war of independence, Haiti had been forced to pay the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars to its former French slave masters, a ransom for the freedom it had already won in battle.     But on the night of Sept. 25, 1880, paying off the last of that money finally seemed within reach. No longer would Haiti lurch from one financial crisis to the next, always with a weather eye on the horizon for the return of French warships. The new president, Lysius Salomon, had managed a feat that had eluded the nation ...