"LE GABON ENERVANT" OR "ANNOYING GABON"

 

 

 

      English version   Recently, Jean-Christophe Owono-Nguema, one of the leaders of Ossimane that this blog would like to rename: "FC Mone Ngol" (FC small catfish), proudly told one of his compatriots that he did not have the right to express himself in Oyem. Others of his co-religionists have extended this fatwa to the whole of Woleu-Ntem: henceforth one must be a native of the north to go and speak in the north. Defy this prohibition and the ayatollahs will threaten you with death. At least this has the merit of being clear!   Then came the turn of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Gabon, Regis Onanga-Ndiaye, who went to Ogooué-Maritime to rank the inhabitants of this province according to whether they were indigenous or non-native. This happened in the presence of Jean Ping and Michel Essongue who, according to the principle of who says nothing consents, certainly supported this blunder.   But above all, all this comes on the eve of th...

  To watch click here Pour regarder cliquer ici       English version   So that the oliguists do not misunderstand us, we give yourself above the opportunity to listen carefully to the words in Fang with French subtitles, of the President of Equatorial Guinea, who gives a very good speech of a magnanimous leader who has come to help his brothers in perdition to have electric power. He says in essence this: "we have electricity, but we are sad that our brothers in Bitam do not have it; so we decided to give them some, out of solidarity."   This is a commendable gesture; but it is a gesture of charity and not an act of political or economic governance. All Gabon has to say is thank you and shut up, because as a philosopher recently reminded us: "the hand that gives is always above the hand that receives".   Game over!           Version française   Pour que les oliguistes ne nous comprenn...

      English version   Stupidity always insists, Albert Camus warned us. Dear readers, we had hardly replied to this reader who compared the supply of electricity to Germany by France, to that of Gabon by Equatorial Guinea; that other Oliguists have come back with gusto by stubbornly asserting to the point of absurdity that if Canada could supply electricity to the USA, then Equatorial Guinea can supply it to Gabon. Dear readers, the stupidity of some Gabonese is almost aesthetically elegant.   On the graph above, you can see the largest hydroelectric power producing countries in the world. China is in the lead, followed by Brazil, Canada, the USA, Russia etc. In this top 5, Canada is the only underpopulated country, with 40 million inhabitants in a country twice the size of all of Western Europe.   Canada has hundreds of lakes and rivers that make this country suitable for hydropower generation. There is the Canadian Electricity Associat...

      English version   Following our post that presented a graph that clearly showed that in terms of resources, Gabon should not go begging for anything to Equatorial Guinea, a well-meaning Oliguist sent us a note, all in all courteous, reminding us that the great Germany did buy its electricity and gas from France and Russia respectively; so, why can't Gabon do the same with Equatorial Guinea? We want to respond here to this compatriot.   Since the 1970s, Germany, which had always had more than sufficient internal electricity production capacity, decided to go green and no longer produce electricity from sources emitting greenhouse gases (CO2). The German government therefore decided that it would be more profitable and efficient for them to import electricity from other European countries, produced from renewable and clean energy sources. This is why Germany buys electricity from France, which is produced from nuclear power plants with zero CO2 e...

 

 

English version The week that is ending saw the spokesman of the Presidency of the Republic organize a press conference. During this exercise, he said that under the CTRI, Gabon's debt had decreased and was now standing at 54% of GDP. This blog is always very circumspect about the official figures provided by Gabon, and that is why we have gone to international sources that get their statistics directly from Bretton Woods institutions. So, we went to Trading Economics website, which compiles all the economic data of the countries of the world. These figures are taken directly from the International Monetary Fund. These figures tell us that in February 2025, Gabon's debt stands at 76% of GDP and that in 2026, it will rise to 79% of GDP; then to 81% in 2027. In fact, dear readers, you can see that instead of decreasing, the country's debt continues to grow. The question that this blog asks is why do the Gabonese authorities contunue to lie, when the truth is so easily verifia...

      English version   Here is the trajectory of the Gabonese et Equatorial Guinea’s economies since the 1970s. Both countries. During that time, Equatorial Guinea has had a GDP higher than that of Gabon only in 2010. Yes, that country has better infrastructure than Gabon and is going to even provide Gabon with electricity. How is this even possible?         Version française   Voici la trajectoire des économies du Gabon et de la Guinée équatoriale depuis les années 1970. Pendant cette periode, la Guinée équatoriale n'a eu un PIB supérieur à celui du Gabon qu'en 2010. Mais curieusement, ce pays dispose de meilleures infrastructures que le Gabon et va même fournir de l'électricité au Gabon. Comment est-ce possible ?

      English version   During his press conference, the spokesperson of the presidency of the republic, Mister Max-Olivier Obame-Ndong, said that Francois Hollande was prevented from having a rally in Paris, France, because a militant threw flour on him; was that the beginning a dictatorship? He was using this example to try to deflect and rationalize the fact that to prevent Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nze from holding meetings in Woleu-Ntem last week was unacceptable, even if what this man stands for might be highly questionable.   Ce que Monsieur Max-Olivier Obame-Ndong ne vous a pas dit, est que la dame qui avait enfarinée François Hollande en 2012, avait été neutralise par les forces de l’ordre, puis placée en garde à vue où il fut déterminé que cette dame était une sans abris qui souffrait de troubles psychologiques. Par la suite, cette dame a été placée en soin psychiatrique par la police française et aucune charge pénale n’a été retenue contre...

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    English version   Of the top 10 democracies in the world, how many were built by military leaders?   The British magazine The Economist ranks countries with the best functioning democracies in the world, according to 5 criteria: 1.       Electoral process and pluralism 2.       Functioning of the government 3.       Political participation 4.       Political culture 5.       Freedom and civil liberties   In the table below we list the top 10 of this ranking and whether their democracy was built by military leaders   Ranking country Origin of their democracy 1 Norway Norway's defense and security forces have never been involved in the country's democratic development. Norway's democracy was built through peaceful and political means, refl...