News Gabon Finance: 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World Bank estimates Gabon public debt passed 80% of GDP in 2025, far above the 68.91% the government reported after an unpublished audit.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 Finance: 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 Finance: 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 Finance: 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 Finance: 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 Finance: Gabon: Oil And Instability
Gabon is cleaning its fiscal house, and hopes to prove it can be more than just an oil producer. Use of the Central African Franc means Gabon has little control over monetary policy Sources: Africa ...
News Gabon Finance: A $500 million deal to restore Gabon’s coast reignites climate finance debate
DAKAR, Senegal — 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 […]
News Gabon Finance: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang had permission to leave Arsenal squad for early link-up with Gabon, says Arteta
Mikel Arteta says Arsenal did give permission for Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to join up early with Gabon ahead of the Africa Cup of Nations as it was best for “his fitness and to keep competing”.
News Gabon Finance: Gabon clinch 1-0 victory over debutants Comoros despite Aubameyang's absence
Aaron Boupendza stepped up in the absence of Covid-stricken Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang to earn Gabon a 1-0 victory over Africa Cup of Nations debutants Comoros on Monday. Arsenal star Aubameyang and ...
