Tag - Gabon
Catching the plane, West African-style
Monday 25 February 2013 - Eye witness
Who hasn't, at least once, made a crazy, mad dash for the airport? But we're willing to wager that even your best 'I-barely-made-it' story can't match this one. AFP's Libreville bureau chief, Patrick Fort, was on holiday with his family in southern Gabon when he got the call from Paris -- 'you've got a plane to catch'. (AFP Photo/Xavier Bourgois)
Court is in session! Uncross your legs
Sunday 16 December 2012 - Eye witness
AFP’s Libreville bureau chief Patrick Fort follows a bushmeat corruption case in a Gabon courthouse with a peculiar set of rules. (AFP PHOTO)
African daydream: Bicycles, bananas and bushmeat
Monday 30 April 2012 - Eye witness
"I decide to drive out far enough to see the cyclists whizz by in a single group, but stop first to fill up the tank at a petrol station. But they don't have any gasoline. Outside of Libreville, I am told repeatedly, diesel rules. 'A 4-wheel drive that runs on gas is useless,' is practically a dictum in Gabon. Good thing I’ve always got a couple of spare cans in the trunk. As the race sets out, we go through village after village with clapboard houses topped by tin roofs held down by big branches and rocks, creating the illusion that it just rained sticks and stones." Follow AFP's Patrick Fort as he covers the Tropicale Amissa Bongo, one of Africa's premier cycling tourneys...(AFP Photo/Patrick Fort)