BRUSSELS, July 24, 2008 (AFP) - The European Commission dropped on Thursday Iran's Mahan Airlines from its safety blacklist of carriers banned from EU skies, but kept Indonesian airlines on the list in an update.

LIBREVILLE, July 21, 2008 (AFP) - Air traffic controllers at Gabon's Libreville Airport went on strike Monday for the second time in three months, stranding travellers and delaying about 20 flights, aviation officials said.

Starting Monday morning, controllers went on strike for a 24-hour renewable period, the ASECNA aviation security agency that employs them told AFP.

LIBREVILLE, July 2, 2008 (AFP) - Three more bodies were discovered Wednesday on beaches around Libreville in Gabon, a coastguard chief said, taking the toll of would-be immigrants to 18 after their boat sank off Africa's west coast.

LIBREVILLE, July 1, 2008 (AFP) - A small boat carrying would-be illegal immigrants sank overnight off the coast of the Gabon capital drowning at least 15 people, police said Tuesday.

An AFP journalist witnessed 12 bodies washed up on a Libreville beach and police said later that three more corpses had been discovered.

LIBREVILLE, July 1, 2008 (AFP) - A small boat carrying would-be illegal immigrants sank overnight off the coast of the Gabon capital drowning at least 12 people, police said Tuesday.

An AFP journalist witnessed bodies washed up on a Libreville beach and police said it was possible more corpses would be discovered.

LIBREVILLE, July 1, 2008 (AFP) - A small boat carrying would-be illegal immigrants sank overnight off the coast of the Gabon capital drowning at least 12 people, police said Tuesday.

An AFP journalist witnessed bodies washed up on a Libreville beach and police said it was possible more corpses would be discovered.

LIBREVILLE, July 1, 2008 (AFP) - At least 12 would-be illegal immigrants to Gabon died when their small boat sank off the capital overnight Monday, said an AFP journalist on a Libreville beach Tuesday where their bodies had washed up.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, June 30, 2008 (AFP) - Veteran African leader and Gabon President Omar Bongo told journalists at an African Union summit on Monday that Robert Mugabe 'is president' of Zimbabwe, despite the way he was elected.

The crisis in Zimbabwe over the much criticised election is dominating the two-day summit in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm El-Sheikh.

LIBREVILLE, June 5, 2008 (AFP) - A French couple who killed an 18-year old bystander when the wife's car rammed her husband's vehicle after seeing his mistress in the passenger seat, causing it to crash, were jailed for three months Thursday.

LIBREVILLE, May 26, 2008 (AFP) - A Gabonese government source said Monday that the west African nation has signed a revised agreement with Chinese investors to mine iron ore deposits on the edge of a national park.