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While lowland bongo antelopes are fairly plentiful throughout Western and Central Africa, mountain bongos are critically endangered.

THE long-troubled Central African Republic is drifting deeper into crisis under an unruly band of rebels whose coup in March ended President FranA ois BozizA©'s decade of rule.

A member of Gabon's senate has been arrested in an investigation into the ritual killing of a 12-year-old girl in the central African nation four years ago, the first time a senior politician has been detained in such a case.

[Cameroon Tribune]Gabonese Ambassador to Cameroon, Paul Patrick Biffot held talks with the Minister Delegate in the Ministry of External Relations in charge of Relations with the Islamic World, Adoum Gargoum yesterday May 27, 2013 on the imminent holding of a Mix Commission session between Cameroon and Gabon in Yaounde. (AllAfrica)

JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI 28 May 2013 (IRIN) - Although Africa’s economy has expanded rapidly in recent years, it has not kept pace with the growth of its youth population or their need for jobs. (irinnews.org)

KAMPALA 26 July 2010 (IRIN) - "Children don't vote," said Dr Robert Mwadime, of Uganda Action for Nutrition, at a session on the subject before the three-day African Union (AU) meeting opened in Kampala, Uganda. This means that political leaders in Africa often pay scant attention to the millions of children who die every year of malnutrition-related causes. Most of the audience nodded in agreement; many clapped. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR 16 July 2010 (IRIN) - Accusations of child witchcraft are on the rise in sub-Saharan Africa - spurred on by urbanization, poverty, conflict and fragmenting communities, creating a “multi-crisis” for already vulnerable children - says the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF). (irinnews.org)

I first conceived of the notion of creating a pan-African economic forum for Africa, in Africa in 2012.

IT was a major feat for Nigeria when the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Prof.

A team of Japanese researchers say they have developed a vaccine that cuts the risk of malaria developing in humans by more than two-thirds. A doctor at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambarene, Gabon, examines on December 11, 2012 a child suffering from fever.

South Africa's President Jacob Zuma, center-right, and Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, center-left, share a joke as Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba, right, looks on at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, May 26, 2013.

A FIFA appointee is investigating the use of a $548,262 grant paid to Gabon's defense ministry to promote soccer as the sport's ruling body tightens regulations on managing development funds.

JOHANNESBURG 27 February 2013 (IRIN) - New data from the World Bank has revealed that African migrants pay more to send money home to their families than any other migrant group in the world. (irinnews.org)

A beautiful new church was recently erected in a forest clearing in Libreville , the capital of Gabon.

JOHANNESBURG 19 June 2012 (IRIN) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has halved food rations to refugees living in camps in at least four African countries citing a funding shortfall. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 31 May 2012 (IRIN) - When night falls in the Dadaab refugee complex in eastern Kenya, nearly half a million refugees are plunged into darkness. The lack of light robs schoolchildren of the possibility of studying and provides perfect cover for thieves and rapists. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 15 May 2012 (IRIN) - The UN Development Programme (UNDP) launched its first Africa Human Development Report today, stressing food security as a means to a better quality of life for all. (irinnews.org)

POINTE NOIRE 25 January 2012 (IRIN) - Forced child labour remains rampant in Central Africa, where poverty fuels the trafficking of children from poorer countries to oil-rich states such as Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo, according to experts. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 18 October 2011 (IRIN) - Genetically modified (GM) food aid bound for Africa has long been a bone of contention among governments, scientists, activists, consumers and aid workers. (irinnews.org)

BRAZZAVILLE 16 September 2011 (IRIN) - The refugee status of 9,500 people from the Republic of Congo, who have been in neighbouring Gabon since the late 1990s, expired on 31 July, but many are still reluctant to return home. (irinnews.org)

DAKAR 09 August 2011 (IRIN) - Journalists and civil society members in West Africa analysed a “counter-terrorism plan” drawn up by the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) at a 4-5 August meeting in the Senegalese capital Dakar. (irinnews.org)

LILONGWE 20 June 2011 (IRIN) - The malaria vaccine that has eluded medical science for decades is now within reach, with the final phase of clinical trials underway in seven African countries, including Malawi, where the disease claims 6,500 lives a year, most of them children under the age of five. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 21 April 2011 (IRIN) - A group of international academic institutions and an NGO backed by the European Union (EU) have launched Sustainable Nutrition Research for Africa in the Years to come, or SUNRAY, to develop a nutrition agenda for Africa, with specific emphasis on the 34 sub-Saharan countries. (irinnews.org)

The government has denied reports that it spent Sh100 million in hiring a private jet for Deputy President William Ruto to use on his four African nation tour.

Deputy President William Ruto said the instability in Somalia is piling pressure on Kenya's security situation.

While some think of North Africa as a region of turmoil and unrest half a world away, one nation has emerged as a leader, demonstrating a commitment to cooperation and regional security that can ultimately benefit the interests of theU.S. Morocco, under the leadership of King Mohammed VI, recently deepened its ties in Africa and underscored the ... (more)

New York, May 16 : A neutral security force is urgently needed to help restore the stability and counter the absence of law and order in the Central African Republic , a United Nations envoy on Wednesday told the Security Council, while also calling on the body to consider sanctions against rebel groups for gross violations of human rights.

[]Reporters Without Borders wrote to the Gabonese government today with its recommendations for the government's planned reform of the 2001 broadcasting, cinematographic and print media law. (AllAfrica)

[]President Ali Bongo Ondimba of Gabon has invited President Paul Biya of Cameroon to attend two international events slated for Gabon in June 2013. (AllAfrica)

NAIROBI 08 April 2011 (IRIN) - What’s green, controversial, 15km wide, 7,775km long, cuts across 11 African countries and is designed to reduce livestock deaths and boost food security for millions of people? Nothing yet, but the Great Green Wall project, a pipe-dream for decades, was recently endorsed by a swathe of African states stretching from Senegal to Djibouti. (irinnews.org)

JOHANNESBURG 06 January 2011 (IRIN) - The record prices of staple grains in 2008 made investment in agriculture an attractive proposition for countries exporting as well as importing food. The African Union (AU), with its mix of producers and buyers, has been steadily gearing up for self-sufficiency. (irinnews.org)