By Fidel Amakye Owusu Most African nations inherited their juridical sovereignty from colonial administrations that dominated the continent from the mid-19th century. Their borders – drawn...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The pattern has become grimly familiar across Africa: military coups followed by promises of democratic transition, then a return to authoritarianism. But...
By Godfred Zina In a striking diplomatic turnaround, Gabon is redefining its place on the global stage. Just months after a military coup upended its political...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In 2024, Gabon emerged as the world’s second-largest producer of manganese, churning out 4.6 million metric tons of the critical metal –...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu With the highest number of countries in the world, being the second-largest continent, and with a diverse sociocultural landscape, the security dynamics...
By Gregory Simpkins Since African nations began the road to independence in the 1950s, there have been about 100 coups in which militaries overthrew elected governments....
AFP | The African Union Commission’s Political Affairs, Peace and Security Department “strongly condemns the military takeover of power” in Gabon and “decides to immediately suspend...
By Max Walter Industrial policy is seeing a revival in Africa and beyond. In fact, governments across the continent are now explicitly using a variety of...
Representatives of the Central African Economic and Monetary Community, known as CEMAC, have reached an important milestone in their efforts to put an end to roaming...
Gabon has opened initial talks with companies to develop the 1 billion ton Belinga iron ore deposit and will launch a formal tender process in 2016,...
Gabon’s government has told French oil major Total’s local subsidiary to pay $805 million in back taxes from 2008 to 2010, in a case watched closely...
If your neighbors get a cheap loan to build their new railway, you are going to want one too. But Hannibal cannot help worrying about the...
(Reuters) – Gabon has informed the World Trade Organization (WTO) that it will hold a licensing round for offshore oil blocks later this year, and that...
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) as met with its African member states, as part of its continental fundraising efforts. The consultations on the fringes of...
National rivalries between Cameroon and Gabon could sink a plan to unite their independent stock exchanges which have so far proved to be not viable on...
