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inatungulates · 2 months

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Forest buffalo Syncerus nanus nanus

Observed by flint_jack, CC BY-NC

#Syncerus nanus nanus #forest buffalo #Bovidae #cattle #Africa #Gabon #juvenile

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folkfashion · 2 months

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Fang Bwiti initiate, Gabon, by Laurent Sazy

#fang #gabon #africa #central africa #folk clothing #traditional clothing #traditional fashion #cultural clothing

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ghost-37 · 1 year

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kemetic-dreams · 1 year

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American actor Samuel L. Jackson traces his origins back to the Bantu tribe of Gabon

The Bantu people are the speakers of Bantu languages, comprising several hundred indigenous ethnic groups in sub-Saharan Africa, spread over a vast area from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes to Southern Africa.

He was welcomed as a lost son by the Benga people and was inducted into the Benga tribe, with rare and unprecedented access to secret ceremonies and local customs.

#kemetic dreams #samuel l jackson #gabon #bantu #african #africans #african ancestry #dna #african dna #dna test

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lafemani · 2 months

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#tweeter #funny #lol memes #tumblr memes #humour #lol #funny memes #dank memes #funny tweets #humor #french #gabon #français #tweet #memedaddy #memes #memes for days #musique

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sissa-arrows · 8 months

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French medias saying the military coup in Gabon is not as bad and not a priority compared to the one in Niger because there is no “anti France feeling” and because “the president has been elected but the election were suspicious”

Look the election were suspicious as fuck. Gabon’s government actually asked the Moroccan government to keep Gabonese students from going to assist to the count at the embassy in Morocco… the Moroccan government agreed and violently beat up the Gabonese students who tried to assist to the voting count. But suspicious election or not it doesn’t matter. What matters to France is “is the new leader going to let us steal or not? If the answer is yes then it’s a good coup and we support it”

I swear they are not even pretending anymore bitch really said “it’s different there’s no anti France feeling”.

#Africa #Gabon #african politic #France #neo colonialism #niger

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reasonsforhope · 8 months

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Gabon's debts will be reduced by $450 million thanks to an innovative debt-for-nature mechanism. Piloted on Gabon's behalf by Bank of America (BofA), the debt-for-nature mechanism enables developing countries to reduce their external debt in return for funding for their biodiversity. In return, Gabon is protecting part of its marine ecosystem. This is the second case in Africa after the Seychelles.

...Gabon is paying for its biodiversity through the debt-for-nature mechanism. The operation, for which tenders were launched on the London Stock Exchange on 25 July 2023, will enable Gabon to reduce its external debt by up to 450 million dollars (267.1 billion CFA francs). In return, the country is committed to protecting its marine environment, with the support of the US-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) The Nature Conservancy.

Financially, the operation is being led by Bank of America (BofA), the second largest US bank in terms of deposits. A debt-for-nature swap is a debt relief technique for developing countries. It involves extending payment terms, reducing interest rates, granting new loans at low rates and writing off debts. This technique, invented by the American biologist Thomas Lovejoy, considered to be the godfather of biodiversity, involves exchanging part of the foreign debt for local investment in environmental protection measures.

The largest network of marine reserves in Africa

As part of Gabon’s debt-for-nature operation, the choice to protect marine biodiversity is not an insignificant one. Over the years, the Central African country has built up the largest network of rich and diverse marine reserves in Africa. Stretching over 53,000 km2, or 26% of the country’s territorial waters, this environment comprises 20 marine parks and aquatic reserves. It is home to countless threatened marine species, including the largest breeding populations of leatherback and olive ridley turtles, as well as 20 species of dolphins and whales.

Gabon thus becomes the second African country, after the Seychelles, to benefit from the debt-for-nature swap. It’s a swap that should spread throughout Africa... explains Hamouda Chekir, a member of Lazard’s Government Advisory team.

The French bank has just assisted Ecuador with a financial package that benefits both nature and the country’s economy. In concrete terms, Ecuador has swapped its current debt of $1.63 billion for a debt of $656 million, a transaction corresponding to 3% of the South American country’s total external debt, i.e. $48.129 billion in February 2023."

-via Afrik21 (via FutureCrunch), August 1, 2023

#conservation #biodiversity #debt for nature #debt relief #debt #gabon #africa #ecuador #seychelles #marine life #marine park #good news #hope #united states #france #bank of america

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jloisse · 8 months

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GABON🔴

LIESSE À LIBREVILLE LA CAPITALE APRÈS L'ANNONCE DU COUP D'ÉTAT MILITAIRE DE CE MERCREDI 30 AOÛT 2023

PEU APRÈS LA PROCLAMATION DE LA VICTOIRE D'ALI BONGO, DES MILITAIRES ONT ANNONCÉ DEPUIS GABON 24, CHAÎNE INSTALLÉE À LA PRÉSIDENCE, LA DISSOLUTION DU SCRUTIN ET DES INSTITUTIONS, ET LA MISE SUR PIED D'UN ORGANE DE TRANSITION. /

Vidéo via @Presstv

#gabon #Libreville #omar bongo #bongo

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workersolidarity · 8 months

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Military officers in Gabon say they have seized power : NPR

Military leaders in the West African country of Gabon have arrested President Ali Bongo Ondimba, a Neocolonialist Vassal of France and declared the newly reelected Government dissolved.

This marks the eighth coup in West and Central Africa since 2020, and the sixth former French Colony to be taken over in a Military Coup.

Just as there were in Niger, crowds of Gabonese citizens swarmed Libreville to cheer on and hug soldiers in the streets in what has become a symbol of African sovereignty and independence from France and the other Western Powers.

President Bongo took over leadership of the country in 2009 after the death of his father whose family had ruled the country with an iron fist since 1967. Elections were known to have irregularities and corruption ensured election results almost never reflected public opinion.

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sitting-on-me-bum · 10 months

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A young forest elephant trots along with its parents in Lopé National Park, Gabon, along one of many paths that generations of the animals have cut through the fruit-rich rainforest. Elephants pass on the knowledge of what to forage, where to find it, and when it’s likely to be ripe. Researchers have discovered that Earth’s warming temperatures could be lowering the fruit yield of many species of trees at the park, which in turn seems to be causing some forest elephants to go hungry. (From “How a warming climate threatens Africa’s endangered forest elephants,” May 2022.)

PHOTOGRAPH BY JASPER DOEST

#jasper doest #photographer #national geographic #forest elephant #elephant #mammal #animal #wildlife #lope national park #gabon #nature

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inatungulates · 1 month

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Forest sitatunga Tragelaphus spekii gratus

Observed by luckykeith-diagne, CC BY

#Tragelaphus spekii gratus #forest sitatunga #Bovidae #antelope #Africa #Gabon

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folkfashion · 1 year

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Mukudji Punu dancer, Gabon, by Ramdas Iyer

#punu #gabon #africa #central africa #traditional clothing #traditional fashion #cultural clothing #folk clothing

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ghost-37 · 2 years

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lafemani · 2 months

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tropic-havens · 1 year

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Monodora myristica, the calabash nutmeg, is a tropical tree native to Angola, Benin, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria , the Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo and Uganda.

Due to its large and orchid-like flowers, the tree is also grown as an ornamental.

Taken at Botanic Garden, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

#brazil #tropical #angola #benin #cameroon #central african republic #congo #guinea #gabon #ghana #guinea-bissau #ivory coast #kenya #liberia #nigeria #sierra leone #sudan #tanzania #togo #uganda

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countriesgame · 4 months

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Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about Gabon, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

Be respectful in your comments. You can criticize a government without offending its people.

#gabon #africa #country polls #polls

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