Gabon has launched a national census of the population with the aim of targeting state interventions, Minister of Economy Nicole Jeannine Lydie Roboty-Mbou has announced. The central African country counts 2.2 million according to the latest census conducted 10 years ago. The campaign, conducted by the Commission Nationale de Recensement [National Census Commission] (CNR), will […]
Pope Francis has ended his peace mission to South Sudan with an impassioned plea urging the people to resist the “venom of hatred” to achieve the peace, forgiveness and prosperity that have eluded them through years of bloody ethnic conflicts. Reconciliation and mutual forgiveness for past wrongs — these were the main themes woven in […]
The Europe Union commission did not congratulate Ai Bongo for his re-election as it cast doubt on the fairness of the constitutional court, which, it said, failed to treat fairly complaints filed by the opposition, reports say. Federica Mogherini, EU’s foreign policy Chief, joined the EU’s election observers in Gabon in criticizing the handling of […]
