This is what makes urban Gabonese music unique, responsive and a genuine beat of Africa's true heart.

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Francis Bozize said 120 Gabonese soldiers had arrived in the CAR on Tuesday to bolster the regional force.

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And despite the efforts of the Gabonese government to bolster anti-poaching patrols, according to Bas Huijbregts from WWF, the authorities are failing.

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The new research has been carried out by the Gabonese national parks agency (ANPN) alongside WWF and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).

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Jean Ping, the Gabonese president of the General Assembly who is responsible for supervising the preparation of the outcome document, rushed to mount a rescue operation.

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At the Gabon booth he met Hans Ryckborst, a Dutch national who had been in Libreville for 12 years as a consultant to the Gabonese oil ministry.

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He's helping the government in its effort to reach out to Gabonese youth and convince them that the future of the nation is directly tied to their actions.

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For its part , the Gabonese government is becoming more sophisticated in how it uses music to communicate that message, partly because its President isn't shy when it comes to singing and rapping.

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The Dutch engraver Johann Theodore de Bry's "Gabonese King Receiving Europeans" (1599) depicts a pair of bemused, elaborately dressed European explorers, before the nude king and queen of Gabon and surrounded by their gesticulating subjects, also nude.

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To sensitize the local population about bioethical issues currently at stake in Gabon and explain the importance of the mandate of the new Gabonese Bioethics Committee, a press conference will be organized every evening until the closure of the training on 27 July.

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This 5-day training will thus allow about thirty members of the Gabonese Committee, not only to get a comprehensive understanding of the internationally-agreed norms on Bioethics and Human Rights, but also to conduct situational analysis, to identify ethical dilemmas at the global level and in their country, and more specifically to learn the deliberative methodology used to deal with them.

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