News Investigators/ President of Gabon, Brice Oligui Nguema, has called on investors to pursue “win-win partnerships” that would enable Gabon to process its resources at home, create jobs and develop industries rooted in equity and mutual respect.
Nguema made the call in his statement to the 80th session of the UN General Assembly in New York.
He said Africa should no longer be relegated to “the role of providers of raw materials for which others set the price and from which others profit”.
The president called on investors to pursue “win-win partnerships” that would enable the continent to process its resources at home.
Mr Nguema further said that instead of constantly “stigmatising and condemning the States of the Sahel, the international community would benefit from supporting them in their battle against the many-headed threat of terrorism.
“The people of Gabon have chosen the path of reconciliation and renewal,” said Gabon’s President, presenting the country’s peaceful transition after the August 2023 coup and his May 2025 inauguration.”
He emphasised that the process included “an inclusive national dialogue and a constitutional referendum”, paving the way towards free and transparent elections with a view towards “a definitive restoration of constitutional order by January 2026”.
According to him, the global crises of today require “more sustained and more staunch collective engagement”, particularly in Africa where conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, the Horn of Africa and the Sahel demand urgent international support.
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