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	Libreville - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Libreville (population 578,156 January 1, 2005) is the capital city of Gabon.
		The city is a port on the Gabon River, near the Gulf of Guinea, and a trade center for a timber region.
		Libreville was named in imitation of Freetown and grew only slowly as a trading post and a minor administrative centre to a population of 31,000 on independence in 1960.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Libreville,_Gabon (300 words)

	Gabon
		Gabon is located on the edge of the Congo Basin, the richest tropical forest complex in Africa in terms of fauna and flora.
		Gabon is a haven of prosperity and stability in equatorial Africa.
		Libreville was the capital of French Equatorial Africa from 1888 to 1904.
	us-africa.tripod.com /gabon.html (690 words)

	Gabon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic, is a country in west central Africa.
		Gabon is also noted for efforts to preserve the natural environment with what may be the largest area of nature parks in the world.
		Gabon is more prosperous than most nearby countries, with a per capita income of four times the average for Sub-Saharan Africa.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gabon (1273 words)

	Gabon - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Much of Gabon, which is situated astride the equator, is drained by the Ogooué River (and its tributaries, the Ngounie and the Ivindo), which flows into the Atlantic through a long and broad estuary.
		Gabon's limited transportation network was improved with the construction (1986) of the Trans-Gabon railway, which links the new deepwater port of Owendo with iron ore and manganese deposits.
		Gabon was one of the few African countries to recognize and furnish supplies to Biafra during the Nigerian civil war (1967-70).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/G/Gabon.asp (1357 words)

	Air Gabon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Air Gabon was founded in 1951 as Compagnie Aerienne Gabonaise to fly local flights from Libreville with Beechcraft and DeHavilland aircraft.
		In 1977 Gabon withdrew from the transnational Air Afrique and on 2 June 1977 the re-named Air Gabon flew its first intra-African flight from Libreville to Lome and Abidjan.
		Reported by justplanes.com on March 3, 2006, the Government of Gabon has announced the same day the immediate liquidation of the bankrupt national carrier Air Gabon and its replacement by a new private airline named Air Gabon International which is controlled by Royal Air Maroc.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Air_Gabon (416 words)

	Gabon (06/06)
		Gabon's first European visitors were Portuguese traders who arrived in the 15th century and named the country after the Portuguese word "gabao," a coat with sleeve and hood resembling the shape of the Komo River estuary.
		Under the 1961 constitution (revised in 1975, rewritten in 1991, and revised in 2003), Gabon is a republic with a presidential form of government.
		Gabon's oil revenues have given it a strong per capita GDP of $5,900, extremely high for the region.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2826.htm (3309 words)

	Gabon: Africa Travel Association Magazine (ATA) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Gabon, which hosted the Africa Travel Association (ATA) International Congress in 1980, is easily accessible from the USA and Canada.
		Gabon's Great Leap: With a stable government and 11 percent of the country's land area set aside for the parks, Gabon is uniquely positioned to become the ecotourism capital of Africa.
		Libreville's chalk white buildings contrast dramatically with the dappled green shades of the nearby equatorial forest.
	www.africa-ata.org /gabon.htm (711 words)

	gabon, sightseeing in gabon, travel, trips, tourism, travel agency, equasud, libreville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Limited by Equatorial Guinea at North, by Cameroon at south, and by Congo at east, Gabon has 800 kilometres of coasts wich are a window on the Atlantic Ocean.
		Gabon, independent state since 1960 knows a political stability which ranks him as a leader of african countries, with a prosper economy thanks to its mine ressources.
		Climatical and geographical situation allow Gabon to present various landscapes around a rich and diversified wildlife and flora, where suceed one other lakes, forests, savanas, white sans beaches with blue limpid seawaters.
	www.tourisme-gabon.com /tour_operator/gabon.html (241 words)

	Gabon - POLITICAL BACKGROUND, PERSONAL BACKGROUND, RISE TO POWER, LEADERSHIP, DOMESTIC POLICY
		Gabon (formally known as the Gabonese Republic) lies on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa.
		The main cities are Libreville, with 260,000 inhabitants, Port-Gentil, with 78,000, and Franceville with 23,000.
		Gabon's population has been estimated at 1.2 million (2002 estimate).
	www.nationsencyclopedia.com /World-Leaders-2003/Gabon.html (242 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The UN Decade on Education for Sustainable Development (DESD) was formally launched in Africa Tuesday at the ongoing biennial conference of African Education Ministers and other stakeholders in Libreville, Gabon.
		Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Twenty countries, including 12 from Africa are receiving increased financial and technical support for their education programmes under the global "Education for All - Fast Track Initiative (FTI)" to assist developing nations achieve one of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - Universal Primary Education (UPE), by 2015.
		Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The African Union (AU) is to establish a Pan-African Education Observatory as part of measures to ensure the success of the second Decade of Education in Africa, due for launch in September, according to AU Commission chairperson, Alpha Oumar Konare.
	www.panapress.com /dossiergabon.asp?pays=eng020 (1871 words)

	Panapress Official Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Africa's longest serving president, Gabonese leader Omar Bongo Ondimba, was sworn-in Thursday to serve a new seven- year term during a glittering ceremony attended by fellow African leaders and the masses in Libreville, the country's capital.
		Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Voting was progressing smoothly Friday as some 20,000 Gabonese policemen, gendarmes and soldiers cast their ballots ahead of Sunday's presidential poll pitting incumbent President Omar Bongo Ondimba against four other candidates.
		Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Pastor Ernest Tomo, one of the four aspirants cleared by the National Electoral Commission (CNE) on 19 October to run in the forthcoming presidential poll, has withdrawn from the race and instructed his supporters to vote for incumbent head of state, Omar Bongo Ondimba.
	www.panapress.com /paysindexlat.asp?codepays=eng020&page=3 (697 words)

	Gabon
		WCS first started working in Gabon in 1985, when Dr. Richard Barnes initiated a 4-year nationwide elephant survey and discovered that there were about 60,000 elephants hidden in Gabon’s rain forests.
		This survey was followed by work on natural resource use by rural populations in the Minkébé region in the northeast and by Lee White’s study on the ecological impacts of commercial logging in the Lopé Reserve, now a national park.
		Gabon’s abundant biodiversity is threatened directly by logging and fishing.
	www.wcs.org /gabon (628 words)

	Panapress Official Website
		Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - The People's Republic of China has agreed to finance the exploitation of iron deposits in Gabon's northern Bélinga region at the estimated cost of CFA 1,600 billion francs, according to René Ndemezo'Obiang, spokesman of the Gabonese government.
		Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - A one-day summit of member countries of the Gulf of Guinea Commission (GGC) opened here Friday with five heads of state attending the forum aimed at fostering the aims and objectives of the regional bloc.
		Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Resolute to bring more transparency in Gabon's electoral process, the opposition camp, suggested that biometry be introduced in an electoral system where voters' duplications and movements have marred the reliability of previous elections.
	www.panapress.com /paysindexlat.asp?codepays=eng020&page=3 (700 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Country profiles \| Country profile: Gabon
		This is partly down to its relative prosperity due to oil and to the presence of French troops, which in 1964 reinstated President Leon Mba after he had been overthrown in a coup.
		Gabon's dependence on oil has made its economy - and political stability - hostage to fluctuations in oil prices.
		Gabon's national state broadcaster operates two TV stations, a French-language radio network and a network of provincial stations.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1023203.stm (602 words)

	Gabon Press Releases
		Gabon marks 46 years of freedom Thursday August 17, 2006 14:43 - LIBREVILLE - Gabon has celebrated its 46th independence anniversary with eight visiting African heads of state on the reviewing stand alongside...
		Rene Radembino Coniquet, the former chairman of the law and administration committee in Gabon's senate, was elected as the new senate speaker with 95.56 percent of the vote on Wednesday.
		By Aymeric Vincenot Libreville, Gabon - Despite the quashing of a rebel attack on the capital of Chad this week, some observers fear that the shaken regime of President Idriss Deby Itno may now fall, creating...
	www.topix.net /world/gabon/pr (1570 words)

	Gabon
		UN presses Equatorial Guinea and Gabon to resolve the sovereignty dispute over Gabon-occupied Mbane Island and to establish a maritime boundary in hydrocarbon-rich Corisco Bay; only a few hundred out of the 20,000 Republic of the Congo refugees who fled militia fighting in 2000 remain in Gabon.
		Gabon was first explored by the Portuguese navigator Diego Cam in the 15th century.
		Gabon: History - History Early History to Independence The region that is now Gabon was inhabited in Paleolithic...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107556.html (661 words)

	Libreville, Gabon, Pictures
		Libreville, city, capital, and chief port of Gabon, in the western part of the country, on the Gabon River Estuary, on the Gulf of Guinea.
		It became capital of the Gabon colony in 1886, of French Congo in 1888, and of the Gabon territory of French Equatorial Africa in 1910; it was the chief coastal port of western Africa before the development of Pointe-Noire.
		In 1960 the city became the capital of Gabon.
	www.greatestcities.com /Africa/Gabon/Libreville_city_state_capital.html (184 words)

	gabon,libreville, sightseeing, tourism, tourist agency Equasud, libreville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Gabon is a rare place in the world where these tortles come to lay regularly at the same period, and host four spicies of tortles on its coasts : luth, green, sallow and ioverlaped totle.
		Settled on the left side of the Estuary, facing the Atlantic Ocean, the Domain area is settled between savanna and seaside landscapes, close to the famous Wonga-Wongue reserve limits.
		Nyonie is a must destination in Gabon for those who want to fish in surf casting too.
	www.tourisme-gabon.com /tour_operator/gabon_nyonie.html (521 words)

	Gabon on the Internet
		Coop Gabon are partners with the Swiss-based, Cooperation.net which promotes projects between young people in the North and South via the internet.
		The mission of Forests.org is to "contribute to the conservation of rainforests, forests, biodiversity, indigenous cultures and the climate..." Based in Madison, Wisconsin.
		Libreville, Gabon publisher of fiction, non-fiction by African writers.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/gabon.html (2026 words)

	Tour Itinerary - iExplore Gabon Gold
		Libreville is the capital and commercial hub of Gabon -- officially known as the Gabonese Republic.
		Situated on the Gulf of Guinea in northwestern Gabon, Libreville is home to around 450,000 people.
		Arrive Libreville airport and transfer to your hotel for check-in and overnight.
	www.iexplore.com /eintmap/Gabon/46438 (727 words)

	Regional Environmental Office - U.S. Embassy Libreville, Gabon
		US Embassy Libreville houses a Regional Environmental Hub office, which coordinates United States government environmental policy, reporting and activities for 24 West and Central African countries.
		In response to the increasingly regional character of many international ocean, environmental, science and health issues, the Department has established regional "Hub" offices in 12 embassies around the world where these issues are particularly important.
		Countries covered by the Libreville Hub include: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Rep., Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, the Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
	libreville.usembassy.gov /environment.html (238 words)

	Gabon
		In Gabon there have been isolated instances of civil unrest, both in the capital city and in the interior.
		The information below concerning Gabon is provided for general reference only, and may not be totally accurate in a particular location or circumstance.
		Engaging in illicit sexual conduct with children or using or disseminating child pornography in a foreign country is a crime, prosecutable in the United States.
	travel.state.gov /travel/gabon.html (1581 words)

	Gabon - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		June 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Marathon Petroleum Gabon LDC and its co-venturer Santa Fe Energy Resources of Gabon, Ltd., have announced an oil discovery on their East Orovinyare prospect, four miles offshore Gabon, West Africa.
		fields is already in steep decline and Gabon possesses little of the offshore acreage...
		Air Gabon regarded as a financial basket case for most...
	www.highbeam.com /ref/doc0.asp?docid=1E1:Gabon (1527 words)

	Comp Mgmt PD - U.S. Embassy Libreville, Gabon
		General Ward visited Gabon as part of an orientation tour to meet with security partners in Africa.
		In Libreville General Ward met with the President of the Republic, El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, the Minister of State for Defense, Ali Bongo Ondimba, the Chief of the Armed Forces General Jean Ntori Longho and the Secretary General of the Communite Economique des Etats d'Afrique Centrale, General Sylvain Goma.
		On July 7, 2006, the festivities took place at the Voice of America Station, which celebrates 10 years of operation in Sao Tome and Principe in 2006.
	usembassy.state.gov /libreville (228 words)

	African Studies: Gabon
		Search for Gabon: This service compiles and indexes links to online full texts (requiring Adobe Acrobat PDF), related web sites, and print publications in the IDS library on a variety of subjects pertaining to Gabon, especially in the fields of agricultural economics, trade, health, governance, and education.
		Current news summaries in English or French on Gabon from Gabon and Central African sources, the Pan African News Agency (PANA), UN agencies, and other agencies.
		UN Economic Commission for Africa: "Gabon: struggling to diversify from the oil sector." (2003) Chapter 7 in Economic report on Africa 2003: accelerating the pace of development.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/Gabon.html (784 words)

	Learn ,Explore and Travel To Gabon
		Libreville: With mostly white buildings set against the backdrop of the rich green jungle nearby, Libreville is a distinctly African city with a little French colonial flair and modern shops and restaurants.
		Among the sights are the National Museum, with collections of African art and wood carvings, the market places, where smells and colors mix to intrigue visitors, and the carved pillars of the Saint Michel Cathedral, and the waterfront, beaches and nightlife.
		Politics of Gabon takes place in a framework of a republic whereby the President of Gabon is head of...
	www.squidoo.com /gabon (475 words)

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	hotell.kilroygroups.se /resor/hotell-gabon-libreville.php (268 words)

	Banque Gabonaise de Développement, Libreville - Gabon
		Priviliged instrument of the economical and social development of Gabon, the Banque Gabonaise de Développement (GBD) progressivly implanted itself in the heart of Gabon’s activity.
		The GBD is one of the oldest financial institutions of Gabon, and the only whose vocation is exclusively social.
		It is entitled to bring its technical and financial contest to the realization of any project likely to promote the economic and social development of Gabon.
	www.bgd-gabon.com /en/bgd_history.html (384 words)

	allAfrica.com: Gabon
		Gabon has guaranteed its total support for Angola to accomplish its desire to successfully host the 2010 Nations Cup even as the Mozambican President Armando Guebuza, Tuesday considered as "pleasant" CAF's decision to award the Nations Cup rights to the southern African nation.
		Angola's deputy Foreign minister on Friday said in Gabon that hosting the Guinea Gulf Commission will enable the country to transmit to the international community that the lasting war has come to an end contribute to the region's development.
		Angola's President José Eduardo dos Santos arrived at 9 am in Libreville, Gabon, where he will attend the Summit of Heads of State of the Gulf of Guinea Region, due to start this Friday.
	allafrica.com /gabon (537 words)

	Libreville Gabon Luxury Apartments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Gabon travel deals for budget travel and luxury travel
		Gabon travel deals: the best deals online for budget travel and luxury travel.
		Novotel Libreville Rapontchombo, Hotel reservations in Libreville (Gabon) with immediate confirmation...
	www.apartments-4u.com /luxury-articles/libreville-gabon-luxury-apartments.htm (276 words)

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