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Gabon withdraws from EU fishing agreement after 18 Years
Eighteen years after signing a key fisheries partnership with the European Union, Gabon has announced its intention to unilaterally withdraw from the agreement, citing an imbalance in benefits and growing concerns over resource exploitation.
In Gabon, President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema decided on Wednesday 4 June to unilaterally denounce the 2007 fisheries agreement with the European Union. Gabon believes that the agreement is not beneficial to it. The President therefore instructed his government to notify its decision to the European Union while leaving a door open to negotiation.
Gabon withdraws from EU fishing agreement after 18 Years - Voice of Nigeria Broadcasting Service
Eighteen years after signing a key fisheries partnership with the European Union, Gabon has announced its intention to unilaterally withdraw from the agreement, citing an imbalance in benefits and growing concerns over resource exploitation. The agreement, established in 2007, allowed European vessels to fish in Gabonese waters in exchange for financial support to Gabon’s fisheries sector. However, President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema has desc…
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The president of Gabon, Brice Oligui Nguema, has ordered the government to proceed to open the way for...
Libreville, 5 June 2025 (AFP) – Gabon announced on Wednesday evening that it is launching a "unilateral denunciation procedure" of the fisheries agreements with the European Union, referring to a "deeply unbalanced" partnership to be renegotiated, according to the report of the Council of Ministers. The Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (SFA), between the European Union and Gabon, renewed in 2021 [...]
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