Gabon
Facts and historical events related to Gabon, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive and the On This Day collection.
- BREAKING: Trump is trying to dump US migrants and asylum seekers in Liberia, Senegal, Mauritania, Gabon and…
- Gabon alone is home to 95,000 elephants, amounting up to 70% of the total elephants you'll find in Africa t…
- The wife of Ludacris, Eudoxie Bridges, born Eudoxie Mbouguiengue, hails from Gabon. In 2020, Ludacris was c…
- Gabon's military ousted President Ali Bongo Ondimba shortly after his contested re-election, ending 56 year… (2023)
- By the way, in year 2022, the currency of these our African countries are still being printed by France: 🇧…
- Gabonese captain, Pierre Aubameyang is being fined US$10,000 by CAF for posting images of the national team…
- UPDATE: 18 of Africa's 54 countries that have confirmed cases of coronavirus, with all 5 deaths occurring i…
- Rapper Ludacris has just been made a citizen of the Republic of Gabon.. 🇬🇦🇬🇦🇬🇦 [@aghuasmauro]
- Latest FIFA Rankings—Top 20 African countries Senegal🇸🇳20th Tunisia🇹🇳29 Nigeria🇳🇬33 Algeria🇩🇿40th M…
- The 21 safest countries to travel to in Africa are: Angola Benin Botswana Cape Verde Djibouti Equatorial Gu…
- Yesterday was International Happiness Day, hence the UN released the 2019 World Happiness Report. The 10 mo…
- Do you know that Nigeria, South Africa and Gabon voted for UN Security Council resolution 1973 (2011) on Li…
- ONGOING: Gabonese authorities have arrested 4 Army officers that attempted a coup d'etat in the oil-rich co…
- Check out the lavish lifestyle of Gabonese dictator, Omar Bongo, who died on his 42nd year in power (1967-2…
- Kenya, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Uganda, Namibia and Gabon are the leading African countries in mobile ban…
- In 2008 this 🇫🇷 Minister protested the French-African policy for not benefiting the ordinary African. Gab…
- That time when President Bongo of Gabon became so influential that he was recommending French government Mi…
- 1] This was why some of the African elite loved the much-derided French-African policy. 1 of 2 examples...…
- The world's largest frog, 'The Goliath Frog' is only found in Cameroon, Gabon, and Equatorial Guinea.
- 11% of Gabon landmass are national parks, 13 in total; highest % on Earth after Costa Rica (Gabon has bigge…
- The capital cities of Liberia (Monrovia), Serria Leone (Freetown) and Gabon (Libreville, "free town" in Fre…
- Rose Francine Rogombé, Gabonese lawyer and politician who served as acting President of Gabon in 2009 after… (2015)
- This month Benin, Niger, BurkinaFaso, Cote d'Ivoire, Chad, C.A.R, Congo & Gabon will celebrate their indepe…
- Gabon is home to forest elephants, western lowland gorillas, 200 other mammal species, 600 species of birds…
- 17 natural nuclear reactors were located in Gabon 2 billion years ago, producing about 100 kilowatts, which…
- "@ItsPatFool: @OnlyAfricaFacts do you have any facts about Gabon?" > well, quite a couple ...
- Libreville, which means "free town", is Gabon's capital, founded in 1849 by freed slaves. It however was no…
- Libreville and Brazzaville, capitals of Gabon and Republic of Congo respectively, are French colonial names.
- After Fidel Castro stepped down in 2008, Omar Bongo of Gabon became the world's longest-serving non-monarch…
- Gabon's present name originates from "Gabão", Portuguese for "cloak".
- The remnants of nuclear reactors nearly two billion years old were found in the 1970s in Gabon, Central Afr…
- Omar Bongo, who had ruled Gabon for nearly 42 years, one of the longest presidential tenures in modern hist… (2009)
- Nearly the entire Zambia national football team was killed when their military transport plane crashed into… (1993)
- Albert Schweitzer, the physician, theologian, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate renowned for founding a hospit… (1965)
- Gabonese President Léon M'ba is toppled in a coup d'état and his rival Jean-Hilaire Aubame is installed in… (1964)
- Gabon gained independence from France, with Léon M'ba becoming its first president. (1960)
- Sixteen newly independent African nations, including Chad, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Gabon, Mali, Niger, Senega… (1960)
- Jean Eyeghé Ndong, Gabonese politician who later became Prime Minister of Gabon, is born. (1946)
- Rose Francine Rogombé, the Gabonese lawyer and politician who later became the country's first female presi… (1942)
- Omar Bongo, who ruled Gabon as president for more than four decades, was born. (1935)