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Libreville

Capital and chief port of Gabon, on the northern shore of the Gabon River estuary; population (2002 est) 467,000 (city), 541,000 (urban area). Products include timber, rubber, cacao, palm-oil, cement, and minerals (including uranium and manganese). Libreville was founded in 1849 as a refuge for slaves freed by the French. The city developed rapidly from the 1970s due to the oil trade.

It was capital of French Equatorial Guinea 1888-1904. There is a cathedral, the Sainte-Exupéry French Cultural Centre, and a university (1976).
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Speaking from Libreville, Gabon, where they arrived late Friday after a day of futile efforts to bring Mobutu and Kabila together aboard a South African warship, senior members of the delegation of President Clinton's special envoy to Zaire, Bill Richardson, said that with heavy Angolan support Kabila was now preparing to take the capital, Kinshasa, by force if necessary.
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Under resolution 1055 (1996), adopted unanimously on 8 May, the Council also urged the Angolan Government and UNITA to abide strictly by the obligations they had undertaken in 1994 on signing the Lusaka Protocol, as well as with commitments made by Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi on 1 March in Libreville, Gabon.
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He had been living in Libreville, Gabon, since 1961, made yearly visits to Italy, and had never visited other African countries.
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