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Gabon
Population:	1.3mn.
GNI, $ :	8.9bn.
Debt:	4.9bn.
Overview:	With worries about finance, technical capacity and speed, voices in Libreville are grumbling that perhaps the government should turn to Brazilian, rather than Chinese, investors to develop the $3 bn. Bélinga iron ore mine and associated infrastructure.

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Found 9 articles.

Vol 4 No 11
September 2011

Timber company cuts corners

Smuggling is one of the biggest open secrets in Gabon’s forestry sector. Ever since the government began trying to mandate more local value-added processing of logs, the raw timber trade has slowed while the local industry struggles to develop processing ...

Vol 4 No 8
June 2011

Contracts galore but no delivery

On 1 June, President Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba sacked Housing Minister Blaise Louembe – who has only had the job since January – and the entire staff of the Housing Ministry for incompetence. The government had promised to build 5,000 low-cost houses per year...

Vol 4 No 8
June 2011

Bélinga bonus, uncertainty for CMEC

The Gabonese government is looking for a way out of its contract with a Chinese company to mine iron ore at Bélinga

Vol 4 No 2
December 2010

Ali Ben Bongo Ondimba

President, Gabon

Vol 3 No 7
May 2010

Beleaguered Bélinga

Gabon’s huge iron mine project due to begin production in 2011 has been delayed again by the new government’s plans to renegotiate terms

Vol 3 No 2
December 2009

Hurry up, wait and renegotiate

Gabon's politicians continue to question the delays in the starting-up of the Bélinga iron ore mine and its associated infrastructure works. But financing issues and constant threats of renegotiation have not inspired confidence. As may happen t...

Vol 2 No 4
February 2009

Iron in the soul

After renegotiating for better terms in the Bélinga iron ore deal and drops in commodity prices, parties in Beijing are no longer as keen on the deal

Vol 2 No 4
February 2009

Makokou answers back

President Omar Bongo's government strikes a delicate balance on the Bélinga project: on the national stage, it tells the Gabonese that it is pressuring China to speed up work, but on the international stage it wants to reinforce its regional ro...

Vol 1 No 4
February 2008

Jean Ping

African Union Chairperson and Gabon's Foreign Affairs Minister

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