The National Assembly of Gabon has 120 deputies elected for a five-year term.

Gabon has earned a poor reputation with the Paris Club and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) for poor management of its debt and revenues.

However, since Gabon has no patrol boats, foreign trawlers ( especially French and Spanish ) often illegally capture tuna in Gabonese waters.

Gabon is sub-Saharan Africa ’ s third-largest crude oil producer and exporter, although there are concerns that proven reserves are declining and production has declined as well.

Radio France Internationale has relay stations throughout Gabon.

Gabon has 1, 600 km of perennially navigable waterways

The African country of Gabon has a small, professional military of about 5, 000 personnel, divided into army, navy, air force, gendarmerie, and national police.

Gabon has followed a non-aligned policy, advocating dialogue in international affairs and recognizing both parts of divided countries.

Since 1973, the number of countries establishing diplomatic relations with Gabon has doubled.

Concerned about stability in Central Africa and the potential for intervention, Gabon has been directly involved with mediation efforts in Chad, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Angola, and former Zaire.

Since 2003, Canada has also been working with Gabon in the Group of Friends of the Great Lakes Region, which Canada co-chairs, in support of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region.

Since independence, Gabon has been " one of France's closest allies in Africa ".

U. S. private capital has been attracted to Gabon since before its independence.

The UNCCD has 194 country Parties: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, The Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burma, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Colombia, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, The Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Grenada, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, the Republic of Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexico, Federated States of Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Thailand, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Gabon Airlines has its headquarters in Libreville.

The Agency's headquarters are in Paris and it has three regional branches in Libreville, Gabon ; Lomé, Togo ; and Hanoi, Vietnam.

Shlyakhter is a Russian physicist who noted that the existence of the natural nuclear fission reactor at Oklo in Gabon gave evidence that the physical fine-structure constant α has changed less than 10 < sup >− 17 </ sup > per year over the last two billion years.

Jean Ping the Deputy Prime Minister of Gabon who has a Chinese people | Chinese father and a black Gabonese mother was elected as Chairperson of the Commission of the African Union on 1 February 2008.

Countries currently participating include Madagascar, the first country to participate which since 1989 has generated over $ US50 million towards preservation, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Gabon, the Philippines and Zambia.

A Space Elevator orbital interface has been constructed, connecting the city of Libreville, Gabon to a satellite in geosynchronous orbit.

In 1990, France, which has always maintained a permanent military base in Gabon as well as in his others previous colonies, helped maintain Bongo in power in the face of sustained pro-democracy protests that threatened to oust him from power.

The Sunday Times ( UK ) reported on 20 June 2008 as follows: A mansion worth £ 15m in one of Paris's most elegant districts has become the latest of 33 luxury properties bought in France by President Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon ... a French judicial investigation has discovered that Bongo, 72, and his relatives also bought a fleet of limousines, including a £ 308, 823 Maybach for his wife, Edith, 44.

The flag of Gabon has colours which are green, representing the forests ; gold, representing the equator ; and blue, representing the sea.

Gabon public expenditures from the years of significant oil revenues have not been spent well.

Fifteen natural fission reactors have so far been found in three separate ore deposits at the Oklo mine in Gabon, West Africa.

However, authorities said his temporary asylum there had been negotiated by the United States, France and Gabon.

Denard is known to have participated in conflicts in Rhodesia ( now Zimbabwe ), Yemen, Iran, Nigeria, Benin, Gabon, Angola, Zaire and the Comoros, the last-named nation having been subject to more than twenty coups d ' état in the past decades.

Although Jacques Foccart denied personal knowledge of the attempted coup after its failure, he did recognize that it had been backed-up by Gnassingbé Eyadéma ( Togo ), Houphouet-Boigny ( Ivory Coast ), Omar Bongo ( Gabon ) and Hassan II ( Morocco ), all allies of France.

The Government of Gabon denied the reports, which had been picked up by numerous other news sources, and continued to insist that he was well.

Since M ' ba was otherwise occupied, the French contacted the Vice President of Gabon, Paul Marie Yembit, who had not been arrested.

In the past some other African subspecies have been suggested such as hypopinarus from South Africa and caroli from the Gabon.

Burkina Faso, Kazakhstan, Panama, Mali, Gabon, Kenya, Mauritania, Zambia, Cape Verde, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Bahrain, Qatar, Algeria, Egypt, Kuwait, Philippines, Tunisia and Cambodia have been mentioned as possible future participants.

However, because the largest trees within the South itself have mostly been harvested, the region is increasingly being used as a transport network for logging vehicles from Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the Congo on their way to the ports of Kribi and Douala.

For the 2013 Africa Cup of Nations, Gabon has been drawn to qualify against Togo.

Since M ' ba was otherwise occupied, the French contacted the Vice President of Gabon, Paul-Marie Yembit, who had not been arrested.

In the African nation of Gabon, Sinopec's joint ventures in oil exploration have been accused of violating environmental conventions by the government of Gabon.

The story was that the hybrid had been brought as a cub by natives to a French trading settlement somewhere up country from the Gabon, and kept in captivity for about two years before being transported to the West Coast and shipped to Europe in a French boat.

It is migratory, wintering in coastal savannah in southern Gabon and the Republic of Congo ; it has recently been discovered to nest in beach ridges and grassland in its coastal wintering areas.

It has been successfully introduced to Côte d ' Ivoire, the Cross River in Nigeria, the Sanaga and Nyong rivers in Cameroon, and Ogooué River in Gabon, as well as the lower and middle Congo River basin, including Ubangui and Kasaï Rivers.

The plant grows in Gabon and Cameroon, where the fruit has been consumed by the apes and local people for a long time.

Air Gabon was founded in 1951 as Compagnie Aerienne Gabonaise operating regional flights out of Libreville using Beechcraft and DeHavilland aircraft.

Makokou is the regional capital of the Ogooué-Ivindo province in Gabon.

Gabon is an African country whose musical output is little-known in comparison with regional giants like the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.

It operates a domestic schedule linking the major towns of Gabon with regional services to neighbouring countries in West Africa.