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Vol 65 No 20

Published 4th October 2024


Gabon

Nguema’s expensive balancing act

The country’s foreign policy allows it to maintain dynamic partnerships with the US, China, France, Russia and regional powers in the Middle East

Gabon’s President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema has extolled his country’s partnership with Beijing, hailing China’s role in bolstering Gabon’s digital economy – which made it the first Central African country to test 5G technology – and praising China’s provision of preferential loans to construct three modern vocational centres.

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