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Gabon president fires VP, forests minister over hardwood scandal [1]

Gabon’s President Ali Bongo has fired his vice president and his forests minister, his office said on Wednesday, after hundreds of containers of illegally logged kevazingo wood that had been seized

Publication Date: 
23/05/2019
Reuters (Africa) [2]
Tags:
Forests [3], Deforestation [4], Timber Smuggling [5], Gabon [6], Illegal Trade [7], Africa [8]

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[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/timber-smuggling
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gabon
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/illegal-trade
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