Gabon Timber Controversy
353 views · Published 24 October 2018 · 2:13 · Indexed 7 October 2026
Channel: VOA Africa · 2018 · News & Politics
In Gabon, tensions are high between logging companies and villagers who are becoming dispossessed of their ancestral forests. Timber companies do not always respect the compensation promised to local populations who have now resorted to makeshift roadblocks and complaining to authorities.
