03:54 GMT 8th November 2011
Last month Gabon launched what it billed as the biggest special economic zone (SEZ) in West and Central Africa, aiming to attract $1.1 bn a year in foreign investments via tax breaks.
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01:40 GMT 31st August 2011
Chinese state oil giant Sinopec's Addax unit says a July 13 leak in a pipeline from a field in Gabon cost it some $3 million as around 30,000 barrels of output were temporarily held up.
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12:10 GMT 31st August 2011
Local civil rights groups and trade unions have called on France to withdraw support for President Ali Bongo Ondimba.
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02:15 GMT 18th July 2011
Brazilian state oil company Petrobras said last month it would acquire a 50 per cent stake in two exploration blocks off Gabon, without disclosing the value of the purchase.
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12:19 GMT 25th October 2010
Gabon's government has agreed to trade union demands to limit the number of foreign workers in its oil sector to 10 per cent and to require all executive posts to be held by Gabonese, oil sector union ONEP said early this.
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