LIBREVILLE, 2 Dec 2005 (IRIN) - Residents of the Gabonese capital, Libreville, awoke to a city teeming with security forces on Friday, one day after police clashed with crowds protesting the election that put Africa’s longest-serving leader in power for another seven years.Full report

LIBREVILLE, 30 Nov 2005 (IRIN) - Omar Bongo, president of Gabon since 1967, has won a landslide victory at the polls, securing a further seven years at the helm of the small oil-producing nation. Full report

LIBREVILLE, 23 Nov 2005 (IRIN) - As Gabon’s election campaign approaches its end and President Omar Bongo looks set to cruise to victory, only fraud allegations and voter apathy still have the potential to rain on his parade, according to analysts.Full report

LIBREVILLE, 20 Oct 2005 (IRIN) - The official start to Gabon’s presidential election campaign is still close to a month away but tension is already rising as allegations and thinly veiled threats start to fly.Full report

LIBREVILLE, 10 Oct 2005 (IRIN) - Two heavyweights of Gabon’s opposition have announced they will try to shake President Omar Bongo from nearly four decades of power, after winning concessions on the make-up of the national election commission.Full report

LIBREVILLE, 6 Oct 2005 (IRIN) - Presidential elections have been fixed for 27 November in oil-rich Gabon, with security forces voting two days early in a move the opposition says is a ruse for rigging.Full report

LIBREVILLE, 3 Oct 2005 (IRIN) - Already Africa's longest-serving leader, Gabon's President Omar Bongo has vowed to stand for another seven-year term in presidential elections due to be held before the end of year. Full report

LIBREVILLE, 21 Sep 2005 (IRIN) - Gabon is slashing the price of male condoms in government-approved health centres by 40 percent in a bid to help prevent new HIV infections, health officials in the Central African country said. Full report

BRAZZAVILLE, 14 Jul 2005 (IRIN) - Energy ministers from countries in Central Africa said on Wednesday the provision of electricity must be part of their national strategic plans to end poverty. Full report

LIBREVILLE, 21 Jun 2005 (IRIN) - More than 40 refugees from Congo-Brazzaville living in Gabon have been arrested in a police crackdown on illegal immigrants and threatened with deportation to their home country, a spokeswoman for the UN refugee agency UNHCR said. Full report

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