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Gabon's president is sworn in
Oct 16th, 2009 - kansascity
The son of Gabon's longtime dictator was sworn in as president following disputed elections that opposition candidates said were fraudulent. Ali Bongo took the oath of office Friday at the Presidential Palace before nearly 600 people...
Bosnia, Lebanon, Gabon, Nigeria and Brazil win Security Council seats
Oct 15th, 2009 - StarTribune
UNITED NATIONS - Bosnia and Lebanon won seats Thursday on the Security Council and will be in the rare position of being subject to scrutiny by the U.N.'s most powerful body while serving their two-year terms...
Security Council adds Bosnia, Lebanon, Brazil, Nigeria, Gabon
Oct 15th, 2009 - Earth Times
New York - Lebanon, Nigeria, Gabon, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Brazil were elected on Thursday to serve two-year terms on the UN Security Council. The five newly elected countries will begin their terms on January 1...
Gabon court upholds Bongo's victory after protest
Oct 13th, 2009 - Boston
LIBREVILLE, Gabon—Gabon's constitutional court says the son of the country's longtime dictator won the Aug. 30 presidential elections that opposition candidates said were fraudulent. Marie Madeleine Mborantsuo...
Gabon recovering from postelection violence
Sep 7th, 2009 - Washington Post
PORT GENTIL, Gabon -- Shopkeepers swept glass from streets littered with burned-out cars and hungry residents braved long lines to buy bread as Gabon inched back to normal Monday after several days of postelection violence.

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Gabon president makes first trip to France
Gabon's President Ali Bongo met with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy on Friday on his first trip to France since he succeeded his father, who had made Paris nearly a second home while leader of the oil-rich former French colony ...
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Poetes Fyzik (Gabon): Ce Que L'On Pense [Official Video]
The 9th Annual Waga International Hip Hop Festival took place in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in October 2009. Hip hop artists and activists from all over Africa converged on the tiny city of Ouagadougou for two weeks of bridge-buidling ...
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Oil rich Gabon - BBC
Simon Reeve travels to one of Africa's most expensive cities, Libreville, to learn more about the reality of the Gabon oil industry. Free video clip from BBC worldwide.
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Gabon to choose new ruler - 29 Aug 09
Tensions are rising in the African nation of Gabon ahead of the presidential polls. Ali Bongo, the eldest son of the late president, Omar Bongo, hopes to take over the seat his father occupied for 41 years ...

Gabon from WikiPedia:

Gabon (pronounced /???b?n/; French pronunciation: [?a?bõ]) is a country in west central Africa sharing borders with the Gulf of Guinea to the west, Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, and Cameroon to the north, with the Republic of the Congo curving around the east and south. Its size is almost 270,000 km² with an estimated population of 1,500,000. The capital and largest city is Libreville. Since its independence from France on August 17, 1960, the Republic has been ruled by three presidents. In the early 1990s, Gabon introduced a multi-party system and a new democratic constitution that allowed for a more transparent electoral process and reformed many governmental institutions. The small population density together with abundant natural resources and foreign private investment have helped make Gabon one of the most prosperous countries in the region, with the highest HDI in Sub-Saharan Africa.