News Gabon: Gabon Debt Passed 80% of GDP, World Bank Estimates
The World Bank estimates Gabon public debt passed 80% of GDP in 2025, far above the 68.91% the government reported after an unpublished audit.
News Gabon: Gabon Gas Plant Nears US$209 Million Financing
Lenders including the IFC, the African Development Bank and a US agency have finished vetting a gas power plant near Gabon's capital, Libreville.
News Gabon: Gabon, home to the medicinal plant behind ibogaine, wants a fairer share of its global boom
LIBREVILLE — In the traditional-medicine corner of La Peyrie Market in Libreville, iboga comes in a repurposed clear rum bottle packed to the neck with pale bark powder, set among tinctures in old plastic bottles. Two men appeared within a minute on this day in July, and once they heard they were talking to a […]
News Gabon: Gabon continues push for renewed interest in upstream developments
Gabon is laying the groundwork for a new phase of growth, with recent upstream momentum being fueled by the Bourdon discovery in the offshore Dussafu License in March 2025, alongside production increases led by Perenco, BW Energy and VAALCO Energy.
News Gabon: A $500 million deal to restore Gabon's coast reignites climate finance debate
Gabon will use a controversial financial move to ease its debt burden and restore its oceans at the same time, a leading conservation group said Tuesday. It’s the second-largest deal of its kind to date, and the first on mainland Africa, according to a press release by The Nature Conservancy, the global environmental nonprofit that helped broker the deal. Gabon, an oil-rich Central African nation known for its biodiversity, hosts the world’s largest population of leatherback turtles and myriad other endangered species.
News Gabon: Gabon’s 2027 Budget Lifts Debt Interest Costs by Almost 37 Percent
Gabon debt interest charges are set to rise 36.9 percent in 2027, to about US$1.18 billion, under the draft budget adopted on 18 September 2026.
News Gabon: Gabon to buy Carlyle's oil business, preempting $1.3 billion sale
LONDON (Reuters) -Gabon's national oil company has agreed to acquire Carlyle's Assala Energy after it used its right to preempt the sale of the business for $1.3 billion to France's Maurel & Prom, the firms said on Friday. Maurel & Prom had agreed in August to acquire Assala Energy for $730 million, a deal which also included rolling over a $600 million credit facility. But following a military coup in the west African country in late August, the Gabonese national oil firm sought to exercise its preemptive right on the acquisition in November.
News Gabon: Gabon's junta pays first instalment of debt-for-nature fund money - TNC
The junta that seized power in Gabon in August has paid the first instalment of conservation fund money that forms a key part of a pioneering "debt-for-nature" deal sealed just before its coup. The $500 million debt swap was the first of its kind on continental Africa and saw the government of overthrown president Ali Bongo commit to protect Gabon's coastal waters that host the world's largest population of leatherback turtles.
News Gabon: Gabon Projects 36.9% Rise in Debt Interest Costs in 2027
Gabon expects debt-related financial charges to jump nearly 37% to CFAF 667.3 billion in 2027, making debt one of the heaviest pressures on the state budget. The government plans to rely on budget ...
News Gabon: UPDATE 5-Gabon coup triggers dollar bond slump, raises funding questions for region
Gabon's military coup sparked the steepest daily drop in its dollar bonds on Wednesday since the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and came just weeks after the country carried out continental Africa's first debt-for-nature swap. A group of senior military officers in the Central African nation announced on TV in the early hours of Wednesday that they had taken control, minutes after the state election body announced that President Ali Bongo had won a third term. The country's bond due for repayment in 2025 fell the most, by as much as 14 cents, before recovering to end the day down almost 8.5 cents on the dollar at 85 cents.
News Gabon: Gabon Plans 1,651 Km Fiber Expansion to Nearly Double National Backbone
Gabon plans to deploy an additional 1,651 km of fiber-optic cable, nearly doubling the length of its national backbone. SPIN and Gabon Fiber S.A. plan to sign a public-private partnership agreement on ...
News Gabon: Millennial Potash chair on why Gabon could reshape the global potash map
The global potash industry has long operated within a narrow circle of dominant producers. As demand grows and supply chain vulnerabilities come into sharper focus, the search for reliable new sources is intensifying. Farhad Abasov, chairman and director of Millennial Potash Corp (TSX-V:MLP,...
News Gabon: Perenco picks up seven fields offshore Gabon from Total
Perenco has agreed to acquire interests in seven mature non-operated fields offshore Gabon, along with interests and operatorship in the Cap Lopez oil terminal from Total’s 58%-owned affiliate Total ...
News Gabon: Perenco closes deal adding offshore Gabon interests from TotalEnergies
With approval of Gabonese authorities, Perenco Oil and Gas Gabon closed deal to acquire TotalEnergies’ non-operated interests in seven offshore fields operated by Perenco along with its interests and ...
News Gabon: Gabon: What Gabon's Rating Downgrade Tells Us About How Sovereign Credit Worthiness Is Judged
Analysis - The sovereign credit ratings of the leading credit rating agencies are most visible through their outputs: an upgrade, a downgrade or a change in "outlook". The evaluative work that produces those outcomes receives far less attention. Yet it is precisely that work that explains why credit rating agencies occupy such an influential position in international finance.
News Gabon: Gabon Insurance Industry Governance, Risk and Compliance Analysis Report 2025: Key Areas Include Compulsory Insurance, Such As Motor and Professional Indemnity, and Leveraging ...
The Gabon insurance market opportunities lie in understanding the regulatory framework, benefiting from 100% FDI allowance, and navigating the rules for non-admitted insurance. Key areas include compulsory insurance, such as motor and professional indemnity, and leveraging regional collaborations with CIMA member states.Dublin, Feb. 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Gabon Insurance Industry - Governance, Risk and Compliance" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering.The 'Gabon I
News Gabon: L’Archer Opens Gabon Office to Deepen Its CEMAC Financial Market Presence
Congolese financial group L’Archer has opened a representative office in Gabon after working on more than five transactions in the country since January. The group wants to mobilize more capital for ...
News Gabon: First ‘Debt-For-Nature’ Swap Complete In Gabon
A military coup overshadows Africa’s first-ever deal involving private creditors to refinance $500 million of Gabon’s sovereign debt. Bank of America Corporation recently completed its first ...
