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| | Bongo fed up with rising crime in Libreville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - President Omar Bongo Ondimba Friday chaired an emergency session of the Gabonese cabinet attended by heads of security forces to deliberate on measures to curb rising insecurity in Libreville, the capital. |
 | | Early this week, police arrested the suspected murderer of Dr Loïc Dechazal, chief medical officer of the Ogoue Mining Company (OMILOG), killed in a Libreville hotel where he had lodged. Secret cameras installed in the hotel identified suspect Thomas Nguindjoi-Obame, a Cameroonian, who had occupied a room next to the doctor's. |
 | | Economic hardship and high unemployment are believed to be twin factors driving the current upsurge of violence in Libreville, home to about 700,000 Gabonese and foreigners. |
| www.panapress.com /freenews.asp?code=eng073123&dte=18/02/2005 (269 words) |
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