Elisabeth Moumba/CPJ Guest Blogger
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Gabon’s press blossoms, faces financial challenges
I will never forget that morning of August 17, 1960, in Port-Gentil when I was awakened with a jolt by the screams: “Long live independence, long live freedom!” Yet Gabon would not see the emergence of an independent and pluralistic press until the democratization process of 1990.