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"The Sino-African cooperation is a win-win situation. Each party benefits from the cooperation.

In their first year living in Gabon, Africa, Steve Straw and his family have been mugged on the beach, bitten by dogs and had their electricity and Internet cut during a controversial election.

Posted on September 15th, 2009 10:00am by Jason Heid Filed under Media , Travel An odd reference to Texas in today's New York Times article about Libreville, Gabon : In the airport duty-free store, the wine is upward of $400. The service at the fancy French restaurants in the chic Louis district is immaculate, and at the luxury hotel on the sea the ...

The image of Ali Bongo, the son of longtime ruler Omar Bongo, blanketed Libreville.

Gabon opposition parties are demanding an end to what they describe as intimidation after their leaders were barred from leaving the country.

The new president of Gabon, Ali Ben Bongo , is the son of the country's ruler for the last 42 years and a member of one of the wealthiest families in Africa.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has sent a letter of congratulations to Ali Ben Bongo on his victory in Gabon's controversial presidential election.

Gabon on Monday awaited the first results of Sunday's vote to pick a president to replace Africa's longest-serving leader Omar Bongo Ondimba, as the three top candidates all claimed victory.

Six members of Langley Christian and Missionary Alliance Churcha s youth group leave Thursday afternoon for a 17-day trip to Gabon in Equatorial Africa, where theya ll work in an orphanage and a hospital.

The longtime president of Gabon, El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba, died in Spain earlier this month.

Omar Bongo Ondimba, President of Gabon from 1967 to 2009, who has died aged 73 in a Barcelona hospital following a heart attack, was, with 42 years in power, Africa's longest-serving president.

POPULATION: Almost 1.5 million people live in Gabon, one of the lowest population densities in Africa.

During more than four decades in power, Bongo maintained close ties withParis, outlasting a string of French presidents from Charles de Gaulle toSocialist Francois Mitterand and Sarkozy's predecessor Jacques Chirac.

He was 73. The government responded to Bongo's death at a hospital in Spain by closing Gabon's international airport and the nation's land and sea borders.

A Spanish newspaper said Gabon's President Omar Bongo died on Monday in a Spanish clinic where he was being treated for a serious illness, hours after the Gabonese prime minister said he was alive and well.