Gabon

According to the BEAC report on "Cemac's e-money payment services in 2020", e-money transactions exceeded CFAF 2.062 billion in 2020 (around 3 billion Euro), with the volume of e-money transactions increasing by 246% over five years

Studying a group of chimpanzees in the country, researchers from the Ozouga chimpanzee project documented seventy-six cases in which a chimpanzee caught an insect and applied it to its own or someone else's wound to heal it

Gabonese striker Aubameyang, captain of the national soccer team, has signed a deal to play for Barcelona as a free agent until 2025

Artist Pamela Badjogo has released her second album; the singer is proud of her Bantu heritage, seeking to introduce the world to the polyphony of Bantu voices, combining traditional style with a contemporary touch

The minister of the public service announced the regularization of the administrative situations of 11.475 agents of public and private media by the end of December 2021, with 2.200 situations that will be taken into account during 2022

Along with Albania, Brazil, Ghana and the United Arab Emirates, the country joined the UN Security Council for the fourth time, after winning elections in June

200.503 people have been vaccinated agains Covid-19 out of an estimated total population of 1,7 million; of those, only 49.000 women have already received at least a first dose, compared to 150.000 men

A new study has found that the country's African forest elephant population is almost double previous estimates at around 95.000, representing one of the last strongholds for these animals

Domestic crude oil production fell by 11,5% at the end of June 2021; compliance with OPEC+ quotas is the main reason for this decline according to the Directorate-General for Economic Affairs and Fiscal Policy

The country is regarded as the lungs of Africa as its forests store more carbon per hectare than the Amazon, help regulate temperatures and generate rain for millions of people as far as the arid Sahel and Ethiopian highlands