Media of Gabon

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The Media of Gabon is primarily monitored by the Gabon government. Although the main newspapers are associated with the government, there are private broadcasters, and private weeklies that are mostly controlled by opposition parties. There are two major television stations. One is a French radio network and the other is a provincial station. The major media categories are Press, Television, Radio, and Internet news. [1]

Gabon country in Africa

Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic, is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, Gabon is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo on the east and south, and the Gulf of Guinea to the west. It has an area of nearly 270,000 square kilometres (100,000 sq mi) and its population is estimated at 2 million people. Its capital and largest city is Libreville.

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Press

The national press service is the Gabonese Press Agency, which publishes a daily paper. L'Union  (fr ) located in Libreville, is the government controlled daily newspaper, it had an average daily circulation of 40,000 in 2002. The weekly Gabon d'Aujourdhui, is published by the Ministry of Communications. There are about nine privately owned periodicals which are either independent or affiliated with political parties. These are published in small numbers and are often delayed by financial constraints. Foreign newspapers are also available.

Libreville Place in Estuaire Province, Gabon

Libreville is the capital and largest city of Gabon, in western central Africa. The city is a port on the Komo River, near the Gulf of Guinea, and a trade center for a timber region. As of 2013, its census population was 703,904. The area was originally inhabited by the Mpongwé tribe before the French acquired the land in 1839. In 1846, a Brazilian slave ship was captured by the French navy assisting the British Blockade of Africa, and fifty-two of the freed slaves were resettled on the site. It became the chief port of French Equatorial Africa from 1934 to 1946, and was the central focus of the Battle of Gabon in 1940. Libreville was named in imitation of Freetown, and grew slowly as a trading post and a minor administrative centre, reaching a population of 32,000 on independence in 1960. Since independence, the city has grown rapidly and now houses nearly half the national population. It is home to a shipbuilding industry, brewing industry, and sawmills, and exports raw materials such as wood, rubber and cocoa.

List of publications

NameLanguageFrequencyOwnershipNotes
Gabonews  (fr ) French DailyOnline
Gabon Actu French DailyOnline
Gabon d'AujourdhuiWeeklyGovernment Ministry of Communications [2]
Gabon Eco [3] French DailyOnline
Gabon Libre [3] Online
Gabon Matin [3] Daily
Gabon Review [3] French DailyOnline
Infos Plus Gabon French DailyOnline
Le Journal [3] French Bi-MonthlyPrivate
La Lowe [3] French WeeklyPrivate
La Relance [3] French Weekly [2] Private
Le Temoin [3] French WeeklyPrivate
Le Temps [3] French WeeklyPrivate
L'UnionDaily [3] Government [4]

Television

See also: List of television stations in Africa: Gabon

Radiodiffusion-Télévision Gabonaise (RTG) (est. 1959), which is owned and operated by the government, [2] broadcasts in French and indigenous languages. Color television broadcasts have been introduced in major cities. Radio Télévision Gabonaise is one of the state run television stations. Two channels are operated under their network. There were also two government television stations and four privately owned. Télé africa is one of the four privately owned television stations. [1] In 2003, it was determined that around 308 television sets are available for every 1,000 people. About 11.5 of every 1,000 people were cable subscribers.

Radio Télévision Gabonaise (RTG) is the national broadcaster of the Central African state of Gabon. Radio Télévision Gabonaise is headquartered in Gabon's capital city, Libreville.

French language Romance language

French is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) has largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French.

Radio

See also: List of radio stations in Africa: Gabon

In 1980, a commercial radio station, Africa No. 1  (fr ), was founded. [2] Broadcasting to a large area of the African continent, [4] it has participation from the French and Gabonese governments and private European media. In 2004, the government operated two radio stations and another seven were privately owned. In 2003 it was estimated that about 50% of the population owns radios.

Examples of radio stations include:

News Agencies

Agence Gabonaise de Presse (AGP) is an online news agency in the French language. Foreign Internet News Media includes: Africa Intelligence, Africa Time, Afrik, Afrol, All Africa, Ici Cemac, Index Mundi, IRIN, IZF, Relif Web, and Topix.

Internet

In 2003, there were 22.4 personal computers for every 1,000 people and 26 of every 1,000 people had access to the Internet. There were six secure Internet servers in the country in 2004. By 2011, approximately 109,000 people were determined to be Internet users. [1]

Telecommunications

Gabon's oil resources and the revenue that is generated from oil rank the country high among the wealthy nations in Africa. The income in Gabon has major discrepancies. However, the gross domestic profit is one of well above the average in comparison to other African nations. In 1999, the telecommunications market become liberalized. The government established an independent regulatory authority. There mobile telephone licenses and two Internet Service Providers (ISP) licenses were also established. By 2008, Gabon Telecom became privatized when Vivendi-controlled Maroc Telecom purchased a large amount of stock. The Ministry of Information, Post and Technology provides domestic services for Gabon and participates in international services. There are direct radio and telephone communications with Paris and other overseas points. Their telecom operation's are privitazations, acquisitions and new licenses. It includes fixed, mobile, and broadband. Gabon has one of the most penetrated mobile markets among in Africa. The major service providers include Zain, Gabon's Telecom's Libertis, and Etisalat's Moov. [5]

Freedom of speech

The Constitution of Gabon was adopted on March 26, 1991. There has been five amendments to the constitution since it was implemented in 1991. The Constitution protects the freedom of speech and the freedom of press. In the Constitution's fundamental principles and rights, the second right states: "Freedom of conscience, thought, opinion, expression, communication, and the free practise of religion shall be guaranteed to all, under the reservation of respect of public order." [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 BBC News Africa (2012). "Gabon profile". Gabon profile. London, England: BBC. Retrieved 2013-05-09.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Europa 2004.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Gabon Profile: Media". BBC News . Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Gabon: Media and Publishing". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  5. ↑ BuddeComm (2013). "Gabon - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband". Executive Summary. Gabon: BuddeComm.
  6. ↑ World Intellectual Property Organization (2003). "Constitution of the Gabonese Republic". Constitution/Basic Law. Gabon: World Intellectual Property Organization.

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