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The Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC) is now headed by a commission whose task is to tackle the integration of the eleven countries in the region.

Gabon’s Defence Minister Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, 56, became on Thursday the first woman to hold the position of Prime Minister in her country.

Gabonese Investment Promotion Minister, Jean Fidele Otandault has revealed that China would build a factory to produce bioethanol, a biofuel that can be used in some gasoline engines.

Two newspapers in Gabon have been suspended by the country’s media regulator over defamation claims.

Several Gabonese Water and Forestry Service officials have been relieved of their duties following the disappearance last week of 353 containers of exotic wood at the port of Owendo, the Minister of Vocational Training has revealed.

Palm oil production reached 37,117 tonnes in December 2018, an increase of 39.9 percent compared with 2017, the Gabonese Ministry of Economy said in a report copied to APA on Thursday.

Gabon has reacted to students demonstrations by closing schools until further notice, according to a statement published on Thursday by the Ministry of Interior.

Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba will be back in his country on Saturday, after a convalescence of nearly three months spent in Morocco, the Presidency announced in a statement on Thursday.

The Turkish Airlines which operates five flights to Libreville per week, has replaced its Boeing 737 MAX 8 by another Boeing 737-900.

The current disruptions to electricity supply in and around the Gabonese capital, Libreville, have caused a 10 percent loss of the “current production capacity” of the Gabon Energy and Water Company (SEEG), the company announced Thursday in a statement.