LIBREVILLE, Gabon — France's President Emmanuel Macron has begun a tour of Central Africa in a diplomatic drive to test a new "responsible relationship" with the continent as anti-French ...

When President Leon Mba of Gabon was toppled by the military in 1964, then-French President Charles de Gaulle sprang into action and immediately sent French troops to restore Mba to power.

In Gabon as elsewhere, France is a neutral interlocutor that speaks ... During the early stages of the recent coup in Niger, Russian flags were seen on the streets of the capital, Niamey, as ...

Speaking to French newspaper Le Monde on Wednesday ... people can be seen shouting “liberated!” and waving the Gabon flag in the Nzeng Ayong district of the capital, alongside military ...

France officially occupied Gabon in 1885, ten years after French-Italian explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza led a first mission to the region and founded the town of Franceville – one of ...

In Gabon as elsewhere, France is a neutral interlocutor that speaks to everyone and whose role is not ... During the early stages of the recent coup in Niger, Russian flags were seen on the streets of ...

LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP A little over a month after Niger, France is confronted with yet another military coup, this time in Gabon, one of its oldest and most loyal African allies. After the shock of ...

EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP A longtime symbol of Françafrique (the lingering informal system of French influence in Africa), Gabon lacks the economic clout of its political reputation. This country of 2. ...

How come they wave Russian flags? Do they like Vladimir Putin ... you know, at least French oil companies from Gabon. To date, it’s mostly Perenco, which is owned by a French family rather ...