Gabon

Omar Bongo was one of Africa's youngest leaders when he took power at the age of 31 after the death of Gabon's first president, Leon M'ba.

At the bottom of the IQ list is Equatorial Guinea, followed by St Lucia, with Cameroon, Mozambique and Gabon tied for third last.

But as one experience in the tiny central African nation of Gabon seems to show, it's not just finance where China is more aggressive.

Gabon's President Omar Bongo, the world's longest serving head of government, has died today in a Spanish hospital at the age of 73.

Other than crude oil, logs are one of the largest sources of export revenue (but necessarily government revenue) in Gabon.

Gabon is a country in Central Africa that contains stunning terrain and a wide variety of wildlife.

young Nile crocodile slips peacefully through a brackish estuary in a Gabon coastal reserve.

Were these ancient reactors in Gabon the only ones ever to have formed on the earth?

At home, since Gabon was his, he cosseted it one moment and ravaged it the next.

Gabon and Guyana, almost three-quarters of which are covered by trees, say that, with foreign help, they would be happy to keep it that way.

A motor boat was whizzing along the rambling watercourses stretching about in the primitive forests of Gabon, a Western African country.

One of Africa's last "big men" , he is the longest-serving leader south of the Sahara, since Gabon's Omar Bongo died last month.

Before joining the MBA class at IMD in Switzerland in January, she had spent years working on oil rigs in Egypt, Brazil and Gabon.

The next trials will expand to include Burkina Faso, Gabon, Ghana, Malawi and Mozambique.

Undecided countries: Britain, France, Germany, India, Nigeria, Portugal, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Gabon.

distributed . The main countries with manganese ore are South Africa, Ukraine, Gabon, Australia, India, Brazil, and China.

Six countries were downgraded: Lesotho to partly free and Bahrain, Gabon, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan and Yemen dropped into the "not free" category.

He said last month he agreed with the idea of preserving nature but also had to consider Gabon's development.

This year, Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Eritrea, Gabon, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Togo will also have training programs.

Lebanon is already publicly sceptical, and Gabon has called for a negotiated solution.

After some confusion, it was confirmed that Africa's longest-serving leader, President Omar Bongo of Gabon, had died.

Fang: a member of a people inhabiting Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, and Cameroon.

Addax has operations in Gabon, where Sinopec has been involved in oil exploration, as well as in Nigeria and Cameroon.

Increasing number of cases are being reported from Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Sudan, Togo and Uganda.

A medical research centre in Gabon is stepping up its efforts to become a world-class global health research centre.

Petronas is also involved in upstream activities in Algeria, Angola, Chad, Cameroon, Gabon, Niger, Sudan, South Africa, Tunisia and Lybia.

Another west African nation, Gabon, also uses a predictable service contract-based regime that has not changed since 1983.

The capital of Gabon turned out to welcome President Hu Jintao.

China Eximbank cancelled a loan for a dam in Gabon on environmental grounds.

When I first stood on the beach in Gabon , I took off my clothes and contemplated writing home to say: Dont worry, Ma, Im OK.

In the African Cup of Nations, Salomon Kalou will miss his club and country team mate, Didier Drogba, for Ivory Coast's meeting with Gabon.

For many years Gabon was said, perhaps from questionable sources, to have the world's highest per capita consumption of Champagne.

Uganda, Sudan, and Gabon have also suffered outbreaks in the last decade.

Researchers analysed faeces from wild gorillas in Cameroon and blood samples from a captive animal from Gabon.

A multi-centre evaluation of the findings will be undertaken by researchers in Gabon, the Gambia, Ghana and Kenya.

Fay endured a yearlong trek across African forests from Congo to Gabon, surveying the region's still pristine landscape.

Zadeh, Djibouti, Malawi, Zambia, Mosangbiya, Gabon, other African countries, Latin America, South Africa and Eastern Europe.

A flock of African skimmer birds glides over the fish-rich waters of Gabon 's coastal region.

So far, Uganda, Congo (Kinshasa), Gabon, Sudan and Coted'Ivoire outbreak incidents of human infection.

Malaria is a serious problem in the whole of the tropical world, especially in Africa, or here in Gabon.

Camouflaged by its colors and patterns, an extremely venomous Gabon viper is barely visible on the forest floor.

Chad , the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community .

Gabon is one of the world's leading producers of wood.

The capital and largest city of Gabon, in the northwest part of the country on the Gulf of Guinea.

In the latest outbreak, in Gabon in 1994, the epidemic began with a man who hunted and ate a chimpanzee.

And, to complement the centre's existing tropical-forest stations, he plans to build a field station in the savannah in southern Gabon .

Mr Bongo made no distinction between Gabon and his private property.

Visiting Gabon, Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, described the election as "dreadful news" , according to AFP.

Lekedi, a baby western lowland gorilla, sits for a close-up at a gorilla orphanage in Gabon.

The trip to Gabon reinforced his belief in himself and his mission.

Extensive ecological studies are under way in the Republic of the Congo and Gabon to identify the Ebola's natural reservoir.

ON THE Atlantic coast of Gabon, white sand beaches slope out into the ocean.

The scare has also spread to Africa, where the government of Gabon announced a ban on imports and sales of Chinese powdered milk.

Rwanda, Liberia, South Africa, Gabon, Nigeria and many others have already pleged financial aid.

Yet somehow or another, the marriage keeps on working, in Gabon and Chad, Niger and the Republic of Congo, with no apparent sign of duress.

I am a lawyer based in Geneva but I have been close to Africans all my life; my father was a diplomat in Gabon, and then in Ivory Coast.

Yang arrived in Libreville on February 12 for an official visit to Gabon.

Type O is also rare and mainly found in patients in Cameroon, Gabon and surrounding countries.

A black colobus monkey is roasted for sale at an illegal bush-meat market in Gabon.

In Gabon the government is considering giving village associations a legal monopoly on selling bush meat to outside traders.

China has long offered firm support to Africa and tangible help to Gabon.

in Mr Bongo's time, Gabon's consumption of champagne was said to be the highest in the world.

But Gabon's oil reserves were dwindling and Bongo saw a chance to cash in on another hot commodity.

Gabon government will be the grand event to the Chinese Government to provide a friendly and brotherly Support.

The team also took blood samples from wild born, pet animals in Gabon.

Gabon said China is a trustworthy friend of Africa and Gabon.

Gabon in the north-west border the north shore of the estuary, Bin From the about 46 km.

France, the ex-colonial power in Gabon, went along with this.

Just last summer, Giribet and some lab members traveled to West Africa to collect velvet worms in Cameroon and Gabon.

So he came here to buy clothes and computer parts with money saved from jobs in Gabon, South Africa and Libya.

1960 - Gabon gains independence from France.

His passing away is not only a great loss for Gabon but also cost China a respectable good friend.

France now has around 5, 000 soldiers in three permanent bases in Africa: Senegal, Gabon and Djibouti.

There have been almost annual outbreaks, the latest being those in Kikwit, Zaire (1995) and Gabon (1994-6).

Ona has two heads 2 environmental organizations in Gabon.

China and Gabon are good friends and good partners that can stand testing.

And the coastal highway connected is independent street, because the independent memorial Gabon paihuli.

At 18 pounds (8 kilograms) the Gabon viper is the heaviest venomous snake in Africa.

Pictured above is Fossil Reactor 15, located inOklo, Gabon.

A new survey [PDF] has revealed that Gabon, west Africa, has between 15, 730 and 41, 373 female turtles using its nesting beaches.

One of the first to welcome Mr Mugabe to the AU meeting was Omar Bongo, who has ruled Gabon for decades;

Present Hydrocarbon Exploration Situation and Prospect of Salt-bearing Basin in Gabon and Its Adjacent Area

BILLION: The Great Gabon Belinga iron ore mine is China's largest African mining operation

Last October, however, a French appeals court rejected the case. The leader in question was Gabon's Omar Bongo, now deceased;

House Construction of Business Department, China Embassy Project in Gabon

Investigation on incidence of filariasis in Chinese medical terms in Gabon

Gabon Sino-Gabon Fishing Refrigeratory Project

Sino-Gabon Fishing Residential Building Project in Gabon

The Association for Socialism in Gabon

Chinese Embassy in The Gabon Republic

President of Republic of Gabon Was Honored Honorary Professor of PKU

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New Bird Species Found in Gabon

Outlets in Gabon generally accept 1 type of plug

Embassy of the Republic of Gabon

Consulate of Gabon in Hong Kong