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2017 in Gabon

list of events

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2024
Entity authorityQ28868338 ↗
Source-derived summary

Events in the year 2017 in Gabon.

Incumbents

President: Ali Bongo Ondimba

Prime Minister: Emmanuel Issoze-Ngondet

Events

14 January-5 February – Gabon hosted the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.

29 July – scheduled date for the Gabonese legislative election, 2017

Deaths

26 April – Moïse Brou Apanga, footballer (b.

Editorial summary

“2017 in Gabon” enters the record as list of events. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gabon, list and events can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gabon, list and events.
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Why this record matters

“2017 in Gabon” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Gabon, list and events provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q28868338. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “2017 in Gabon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.