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<title>Grab A Cab, Grab A Condom</title>
<link>http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/62053</link>
<description>Gabon's taxi drivers have been enlisted in the campaign to raise awareness about HIV and AIDS.</description>
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<title>Student riots in Gabon crystalise frustration with education cutbacks</title>
<link>http://www.learningchannel.org/link/gotolink/addhit/51015</link>
<description>Four days of rioting by secondary school students in Libreville highlighted a growing frustration with education cutbacks in Gabon, a country that grew rich on oil, but which is now struggling to cope with a steady decline in production.</description>
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<title>Gabon sets aside 10 percent of land for parks</title>
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<description>A full 10 percent of the landmass of Gabon will be set aside for a system of national parks, the government announced this week.</description>
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<title>Gabon seeks help in tackling ebola outbreak</title>
<link>http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/2656</link>
<description>Gabon has appealed for international help to cope with an outbreak of ebola fever about 700 kilometres north of the capital, Libreville.</description>
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<title>Guinea refugees still caught in abuse trap</title>
<link>http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/3761</link>
<description>Tens of thousands of refugees who have sought safety from war-torn Sierra Leone and Liberia are still falling prey to serious abuses in Guinea, according to a new report.</description>
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<title>Refugees still caught in abuse trap</title>
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<description>Tens of thousands of refugees who have sought safety from Sierra Leone and Liberia are still falling prey to serious abuses in Guinea, according to a new report.</description>
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<title>Police arrest Benin 'slave ship' suspect</title>
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<description>Gabon police have arrested a man suspected of chartering a Nigerian-registered ship found carrying dozens of children into slavery in April.</description>
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<title>Benin boat trafficked children, officials confirm</title>
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<description>A boat which left the port of Cotonou, Benin, in mid-March was carrying children to work as domestics and labourers in Gabon and Cameroon, Benin government and United Nations officials have confirmed.</description>
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<title>Africa wants partial debt cancellation?</title>
<link>http://www.debtchannel.org/link/gotolink/addhit/20563</link>
<description>Rather than insist on the cancellation of all their debts that may bankrupt the IMF and the World Bank, African ministers said Saturday that they would prefer an increase in the flow of other resources from developed countries to their countries.</description>
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<title>Fears grow as 'slave ship' goes missing off west African coast</title>
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<description>There was growing concern about the fate of a group of children held on a slave ship that has gone missing off the west coast of Africa. The vessel was reportedly transporting the children from Benin to work on plantations in Gabon but was turned away from two ports when its cargo was discovered.</description>
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<title>Bangladeshi migrants face tough life abroad</title>
<link>http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/5175</link>
<description>Hundreds of Bangladeshi women sent to work as home helpers in Gulf nations each year are abused and exploited by unscrupulous employers, say rights groups.</description>
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<title>Cameroon and Gabon stripped of tropical trees</title>
<link>http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/6623</link>
<description>European and Asian demand for timber is stripping large swathes of the world's second largest tropical forest which spreads across Cameroon and Gabon, warn two new reports.</description>
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<title>Congolese refugees stay in Gabon</title>
<link>http://www.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/6991</link>
<description>Refugees who fled the Republic of Congo for neighbouring Gabon when fighting flared last year are staying put in spite of a ceasefire brokered in December.</description>
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<title>Disabled squatters occupy government buildings</title>
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<description>Several thousand disabled squatters in Gabon have occupied empty government buildings to raise the profile of problems faced by homeless people.</description>
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