"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

    English version   Clashes broke out on Thursday in Senegal, after opposition leader Ousmane Sonko was convicted of corrupting youth, but acquitted on the main charges of raping a woman who worked at a massage parlor and making death threats against her. Sonko, who didn’t attend his trial in Dakar, was sentenced to two years in prison.   At this point, the number of people killed in clashes between Senegalese police and supporters of Ousmane Sonko has now risen to 15, including two security officers.   It is clear that Ousmane Sonko is the most popular leader in Senegal, and he is considered President Macky Sall’s main competition. Observators maintain that his legal troubles are part of Macky Sall’s effort to derail his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election.   Economically, Senegal readies for an oil and gas boom. Therefore, Macky Sall is putting Senegal’ stability at risk by refusing to rule out running for a third term. The stakes of the current turmpoil

 

 

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    English version   "I have not always been satisfied with the people to whom I have entrusted responsibilities," said Ali Bongo.   In other words, the king is good but it is his entourage that is bad. The old story!   A good leader must have a clear and achievable goal; this is his campaign project. He must therefore surround himself with people who would allow him to achieve his goal. But when the only objective is to keep power, while surrounding oneself with pure scoundrels, how can one say that the bad results obtained are the fact of collaborators and not of oneself?   Ali Bongo's only ambition is to retain power, despite the fact that his poor results have abounded since 2009.   Retaining power cannot be a singular goal; These are the results that allow a good leader to demand, by the vote of the people, the right to remain in power or not.   One of the main qualities of a good leader is the ability to surround themself well and delega

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    English version Why is the Ali Bongo’s regime so fond of working with Gabonese of recent immigration, and concomitantly suspicious of long-term nationals? The Gabonese are noticing this and are now saying it loud and clear; they note the decline in the weight of long-standing nationals in the effective control of the most sensitive sectors of the nation. Prime Minister Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze and his government, as well as parliament, can barely hide their humiliation at the fact that Ali and Sylvia Bongo have no use for ethnic Gabonese. The latter do not adapt well to this fact, and by necessity, now demand that their programmed extinction must stop.   Native Gabonese are now in survival mode in their own country. Native Gabonese feel that they are being stripped of their country. If nothing is done, soon these long-time nationals will no longer be dominant in the country. If nothing is done, there will soon remain in the country only a folkloric gabonity and a nation

 

  English version The street got the better of Ousmane Cissé and his sponsors who inexplicably placed him for a few days at the head of the SEEG. But already, some are shouting that this outcome actually demonstrates the xenophobia of Gabonese. Objectively, can we accuse Gabonese of xenophobia? The debate is relevant and even necessary in and of itself. But for this blog, what motivated Gabonese to not accept Cissé's appointment has more to do with self-preservation than xenophobia. Indeed, cultural and pan-African diversity is a reality that affects and generally enriches all spheres of our Gabonese society and this reality deserves to be highlighted and celebrated. Native Gabonese, historically and still today, never resist opening up to other cultures, whether African or extra-African. Gabonese are not hostile to foreigners. Gabonese simply fear that their country will be taken from them; and this is a legitimate reason to become more vigilant. The vigilance comes from t

 

 

      English version   Throughout the world, in both developed and developing countries, national preference for employment is a practice whereby the employability of nationals is ensured first before that of foreigners. This may create feelings of economic injustice among foreigners living in countries, but this is how countries protect their nationals. Priority is given to nationals and foreigners come after.   National preference requires that when jobs are scarce, as is the case in Gabon, employers, including the State, should hire nationals as a priority rather than foreigners. It is precisely to benefit from national preference that citizens pay taxes for generations. Citizens expect the state to preferentially pull them up when they are at the bottom of the ladder.   But in Gabon, injustice is the thing best shared. It is the only country in the world where being of national origin seems to be a disadvantage. Among the general population, the feeling that ther

      English version   The more days pass, the more the Ali Bongo regime demonstrates its thinly veiled hostility to genuine Gabonese. That is no longer tolerable. After Maixent Accrombessi who returned home extremely rich after having completely stripped Gabon; after Liban Souleman also who fled well off enough of our money; after Brice Laccruche-Alihanga now in prison; after the Oceni-Ossa sons who make rain and shine in the presidency; after Gagan Gupta who operates Olam on lines of credit drawn from the treasury of the Gabonese State, without paying anything in taxes; after Sylvia Bongo-Valentin who robs us; after Noureddin Bongo-Valentin who robs us; after Lee White who today forbids us to build our millennial traps to catch antelopes in our forests, while at his home in Europe there are almost no birds anymore; here comes Ousmane CISSE as Director General of SEEG.   Our children will curse us! In every country in the world, national preference is taken care of. But

  To read click here Pour lire cliquer ici       English version   The press tells us that a former French soldier named Juan Rémy Quignolot, who until recently was detained in Bangui, has just been evacuated from Bangui to Paris, via Libreville; and that it was the Gabonese intelligence services that obtained this evacuation.   Juan Rémy Quignolot was arrested in May 2021 for espionage by the Central African courts. His health deteriorated, and this is the explanation that was given to justify his evacuation to Libreville on May 18, 2023. He was picked up by the services of the France embassy in Libreville, who put him on a flight to Paris on the evening of May 20, 2023.   According to the same press, this evacuation was negotiated and facilitated by Ali Bongo. This issue would have been entrusted to General Bernard Gnamankala, who heads the Directorate General of Documentation and Immigration (DGDI); who had for contact on the Central African side, an adviser of

 

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  To read click here Pour lire cliquer ici     Traduction française   « Pourquoi s’embêter à voter ? » : l’apathie en Ukraine au sujet des soi-disant référendums   Les élections organisées à la hâte dans les régions contrôlées par la Russie ont donné lieu à peu de campagne, mais des témoignages abondent de fouilles de porte-à-porte et de répression qui se multiplient.   Avec une préparation minimale, des soldats armés montant la garde et des explosions de guerre souvent audibles au loin, des soi-disant référendums ont commencé vendredi dans les zones d’Ukraine occupées par les troupes russes.   Les résidents des parties contrôlées par la Russie des régions de Donetsk, Louhansk, Kherson et Zaporijia ont été invités à voter sur des propositions visant à ce que les quatre régions déclarent leur indépendance et rejoignent effectivement la Russie.   Ces élections ont été largement condamnées à Kiev et en Occident comme illégitimes, et semblent être une piètre