Gabon gets first woman prime minister

July 16, 2020 Ghmatters 0

President Ali Bongo of Gabon on Thursday promoted his defence minister, Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda, to the high office of prime minister, making her the first woman to occupy the role in the Gabon. Ossouka […]

Breaking: Gabon vote to make gay sex legal

June 30, 2020 Ghmatters 0

Gabon’s two houses of parliament voted to decriminalize homosexuality, making it one of the few African countries to scrap the law. Presidential spokesman Jessye Ella Ekogha said it the law passed ‘with a large majority […]

Three reasons why the Gabon coup failed

January 9, 2019 Ghmatters 0

Military coup drums continue to beat on the African continent in 2019. At 4.30am on January  7, Lieutenant Kelly Odong Obiang, leader of the Patriotic Youth Movement of the Gabonese Defence and Security Forces, and a handful […]