Gabon News 2025

Oligui launched into a hunt for activists: what future for the protest in Gabon?

The Brice Oligui Nguema regime in Gabon is intensifying repression by criminalizing diaspora activists for their criticism on social networks. Analysis of a governance drifting towards authoritaria...

Referendum 2024: colossal expenditure, more than opaque financing

Gabon's 2024 referendum: budgetary opacity and political scandals. Gab'Oil financed the "Yes" campaign in total secrecy, and many other private sources of funding are yet to be discovered.

Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nzé: a former Prime Minister who aspires to better

Alain-Claude Bilie-By-Nzé, former strongman of the Bongo regime, is today a free man whose voice weighs on the Gabonese political scene. What is his future?

A Controversial Constitution: Who Opposes It?

Many Gabonese are speaking out against the current constitution. Among them, Billie-By-Nze, Albert Ondo Ossa and Mike Jocktane, but also many members of civil society.