Full Coverage: Gabon

14.01.2009 A court in the Gabonese capital has released five human rights and environmental activists who have been detained since the end of December, but the charges have not been dropped.

09.01.2009 Five civil rights activists and journalists who were arrested without charge in Gabon last week were formally arraigned in court yesterday and taken to prison.

05.01.2009 Demands have been made for the release of five Gabonese civil rights activists and journalists who were arrested without charge last week.

17.12.2004 Gabon's taxi drivers have been enlisted in the campaign to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS.

28.01.2004 Four days of rioting by secondary school students in Libreville highlighted a growing frustration with education cutbacks in Gabon, a country that grew rich on oil, but which is now struggling to cope with a steady decline in production.

06.09.2002 A full 10 percent of the landmass of Gabon will be set aside for a system of national parks, the government announced this week.

13.12.2001 Gabon has appealed for international help to cope with an outbreak of ebola fever about 700 kilometres north of the capital, Libreville.

06.07.2001 Tens of thousands of refugees who have sought safety from Sierra Leone and Liberia are still falling prey to serious abuses in Guinea, according to a new report.

06.07.2001 Tens of thousands of refugees who have sought safety from war-torn Sierra Leone and Liberia are still falling prey to serious abuses in Guinea, according to a new report.

15.06.2001 Gabon police have arrested a man suspected of chartering a Nigerian-registered ship found carrying dozens of children into slavery in April.

02.05.2001 A boat which left the port of Cotonou, Benin, in mid-March was carrying children to work as domestics and labourers in Gabon and Cameroon, Benin government and United Nations officials have confirmed.

30.04.2001 Rather than insist on the cancellation of all their debts that may bankrupt the IMF and the World Bank, African ministers said Saturday that they would prefer an increase in the flow of other resources from developed countries to their countries.

16.04.2001 There was growing concern about the fate of a group of children held on a slave ship that has gone missing off the west coast of Africa. The vessel was reportedly transporting the children from Benin to work on plantations in Gabon but was turned away from two ports when its cargo was discovered.

18.12.2000 Hundreds of Bangladeshi women sent to work as home helpers in Gulf nations each year are abused and exploited by unscrupulous employers, say rights groups.

19.06.2000 European and Asian demand for timber is stripping large swathes of the world's second largest tropical forest which spreads across Cameroon and Gabon, warn two new reports.

28.04.2000 Refugees who fled the Republic of Congo for neighbouring Gabon when fighting flared last year are staying put in spite of a ceasefire brokered in December.

25.06.1999 Several thousand disabled squatters in Gabon have occupied empty government buildings to raise the profile of problems faced by homeless people.