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The African Development Bank (AfDB), through its President, promises to support several projects, including those related to youth employability, water and electricity to improve the living conditions of Gabonese people. This is the result of the meeting between the President of the Gabonese Republic, His Excellency Ali BONGO ONDIMBA and Dr. Akinwumi AYODEJI ADESINA, on November 21, 2022. 

Cameroon starts producing biogas for a better protection of the environment. Recycling the tons of charcoal waste thrown away each year in Douala is the ingenious idea of Eric TANKEU, who wants to save several hectares of forest.

Considered to be essential for the economy, the country’s small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) will now have easy access to financial resources. This decision was taken by the highest authorities of Gabon, led by the President of the Republic, His Excellency Ali BONGO ONDIMBA, who took part in the official launching of the Société de Garantie du Gabon (SGG) on November 14, 2022.

As every year since more than a decade, JFD (Journée de la Femme Digitale) has announced on November 9, 2022, the call for applications for the Les Margaret Awards 2023. All women from Europe and Africa with innovative projects in the digital field are invited to participate.

Emmanuel Macron is invited to an International Summit on the Environment to be held in March 2023, in Libreville, Gabon, said Ali BONGO ONDIMBA, President of the Gabonese Republic on Monday, November 7, 2022, on the fringes of the COP 27, which takes place until November 18, in Egypt. This climate event will be co-organized with France in the framework of a Partnership for Positive Conservation.

To defend the commitments and measures for the fight against climate change is the main objective of the Gabonese President, His Excellency Ali BONGO ONDIMBA who went to Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt on Sunday, November 6, 2022. He is taking part in the COP 27 which will take place from November 6 to 18.

Two years after the deadly conflict in the Tigray region in Ethiopia, a cease-fire was declared on Wednesday, November 2, by the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). The African Union, which played the mediator’s role, is very pleased with this news.

After the positive exchanges between the President of the Republic, His Excellency Ali BONGO ONDIMBA and his counterpart, Emir BIN ZAYED AL NAHYANE, on October 24, 2022, in Abu Dhabi, Gabon and the United Arab Emirates signed an agreement on the exemption of the visa for the citizens of both countries. In the educational field, five (5) scholarships were also offered to the Gabonese government, in the context of the strengthening of cooperation.

To help African countries to improve their media landscape was the main theme of the Seminar for Young Media Talents from African Countries organized by the Academy for International Trade Officials of China Ministry of Commerce. It took place from October 12 to 25, 2002, by videoconference and seventeen (17) employees of the 24-hour bilingual news channel, Gabon 24 participated in this training, as part of the sponsorship of skills.

Economic diversification remains a major concern for Central African countries. This is why, a financing plan for the community strategy worth CFAF 642 billion to develop cassava production and processing in the subregion was elaborated, at the end of the meeting of the Technical Secretariat of the Economic and Financial Reform Program of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States (PREF-CEMAC), held on September 18, 2022, in Cameroon.