Elf Gabon

Nigeria: ADB Lends Two Banks, Others $271 Million.
TendersInfo; 7/25/2009; 584 words; ...million by the African Development Bank (ADB), which also lent Gabon $71 million to finance education and vocational training. UBA...funding initiatives to banks: the Emergency Liquidity Fund (ELF) and the Trade Finance Initiative (TFI). Both schemes will...

Nigeria: UBA, Zenith Get $200m AfDB Facility.
TendersInfo; 7/24/2009; 641 words; ...Funding Initiatives to banks: the Emergency Liquidity Fund (ELF) and the Trade Finance Initiative (TFI), which together are...liquidity into African banks in 2009 and beyond. The AfDB also lent Gabon $71 million to finance an education and vocational training...

Bongo "White like a Negro"
New African; 7/1/2009; 1660 words; ...his 42 years at the helm of Gabon, President Bongo endured a...that the French oil giant, Elf Aquitaine, which has made huge profits in Gabon, helped him to plunder the...French officials of Elf in Gabon. Besides being a head of state...

They came to bury him, not to praise him; France and Africa.
The Economist (US); 6/20/2009; 1611 words; A funeral in Gabon is a test of how fast and how...so many French bigwigs go to Gabon to praise what they like to...corruption trial involving Elf-Aquitaine, an oil company...in Djibouti, Senegal and Gabon. A one-time base in Cote...

Bongo's Gabon.(Opinion)
The Hamilton Spectator (Hamilton, Ontario); 6/13/2009; 733 words; President Omar Bongo of Gabon, one of Africa's longest...made by the French oil giant, Elf Aquitaine. One Elf representative...the deal with Elf to exploit Gabon's oil wells was Paris's...Some economists estimate that Gabon will run out of crude oil in...