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The editor-in-chief of L'Orient–Le Jour, Eduard Saab, was murdered on 16 May 1976. [5] The paper won the Grand Prix de la Francophonie from the Académie Française in 2021. L'Orient–Le Jour journalist Caroline Hayek was awarded the Albert Londres Prize for her coverage of the 2020 explosion at the Port of Beirut. [6]
Gabon Actu: French: Daily Online Gabon d'Aujourdhui: French: Weekly Ministry of Communications [2] Gabon Eco [3] French: Daily Online Gabon Libre [3] Online Gabon Matin [3] Daily Gabon Review [3] French: Daily Online Infos Plus Gabon: French: Daily Online Le Journal [3] French: Bi-monthly Private La Lowe [3] French: Weekly Private La Relance [3 ...
Gabon 24 is Gabon's first bilingual non-stop news television channel, launched on 24 May 2016.Until May 2018, Gabon 24 was part of the Gabon Télévision group.. Decree 0152 of 4 May 2018 led to the creation, organization and operation of Gabon 24, and detached the channel from the larger Gabon Télévision group, as enshrined in its article 2: "it is created and attached to the Presidency of ...
Military officers in oil-producing Gabon said they had seized power on Wednesday and had put President Ali Bongo under house arrest, stepping in minutes after the Central African state's election ...
From 1858 to 1958 there were nearly 200 newspapers in the country. [2] Prior to 1963 the number of newspapers was more than 400. [3] However, the number reduced to 53 due to the 1963 press law. [3] [4] Censorship of the press in the country occurred during the Ottoman era. [5]
2 September – Gabon's military government reopens the country's borders, three days after its closure. [5] 12 October – Sylvia Bongo Ondimba, the former first lady of Gabon, is jailed by the ruling military junta. [6]
Gabon was also ranked 136th out of 180 countries for the perception of corruption by Transparency International in 2022. [23] In a speech delivered on the country's Independence Day on 17 August, Bongo, a close ally of France, insisted that he would not allow Gabon to be subjected to "destabilization", referring to other recent coups in the region.
A constitutional referendum was held and approved in Gabon on 16 November 2024. [1] The vote was on a new constitution; [2] it proposed, among other things, a 7-year presidential term, renewable once consecutively. [3] The referendum may lead to the return to a civilian regime which the military junta promised after the coup d'état in 2023. [4]