Libreville, Gabon News

Catholic Information Service for Africa 2 September 2008 Libreville Health and environment ministers in Africa have resolved to build a strategic health and environment alliance to reduce environmental threats ...

"The African continent is rich in natural resources and has a potentially strong human resource base to sustain flourishing economies.

A COALITION of health and environment ministers in Africa has adopted new strategies to check environmental threats to human health.

Sunday, 31 August 2008, 3:54 pm Press Release: United Nations African health and environment ministers attending a United Nations-sponsored conference concluding today in Gabon have agreed to form an alliance ...

The offensive launched by the ethnic-Zaghawa militia is part of the president of Chad's huge pre-arranged ethnic-cleansing plan, rebel spokesman Djede Koultou Gamar told AFP by phone from Libreville.

NDJAMENA: A Chadian criminal court has condemned exiled former president Hissene Habre to death in absentia for crimes against humanity, judicial officials said.

I T is the constitutional duty of governments all over the world to protect and secure the lives and property of both citizens and non-citizens domiciled within their geographical borders.

A police sting in Gabon brought down a ring of grave robbers suspected of selling human skulls to makers of traditional medicines and amulets, officials said Wednesday.

A small boat carrying would-be illegal immigrants sank overnight off the coast of the Gabon capital drowning at least 15 people, police said on Tuesday.

'Union Government will take off in January' Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt - Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade has said the African federal government will be set up next January by those countries that are ready to ...

At least 12 would-be illegal immigrants to Gabon died when their small boat sank off the capital overnight on Monday, said an AFP journalist on a Libreville beach on Tuesday where their bodies had washed up.

The bodies of at least 37 suspected immigrants were washed up on a beach in Gabon's capital Libreville on Tuesday.

The Pentagon announced charges Monday against the alleged al-Qaeda mastermind behind the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole and said it would seek the death penalty.

At least a dozen African migrants drowned when their boat sank overnight off the coast of Gabon.

Jul. 1 - At least 37 bodies of suspected would-be migrants to Europe are found dead on the seafront of Gabon's capital Libreville.

The UN Security Council on Friday welcomed the recent peace agreement reached by authorities in the Central African Republic and two rebel groups operating in the impoverished and strife-torn country.

T HE Central African Republic's government and two rebel groups have signed a "comprehensive peace agreement" at the weekend which leaves the door open for a third rebel group to sign on.

The United States congratulates President of the Central African Republic Franois Boziz, Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations Franois Fall, and the signatory parties to the ...

The leader of a third rebel group, the Democratic Front for the Central African People , Abdoulaye Miskine, missed the signing ceremony as he was unable to make the trip from Tripoli.

Central African Republic's two main rebel movements signed a peace deal with the government Saturday that promised amnesty for rebel combatants after years of low-level conflict.