As a part of the occasions regarding the celebration of the 14th African Borders Day (JAF), celebrated on June 17 every year, a convention was organized on Thursday on the Ministry of the Inside and Safety, answerable for border governance. This convention centered on varied themes, together with the historical past and state of affairs of Gabonese borders in 2024.
The previous rector of the Omar Bongo College (UOB) clarified that “the place there are nonetheless disputes, notably with Congo-Brazzaville, as a result of the truth that we belonged to the identical colonial administrative entity, that’s to say the AEF, there remained a sure variety of zones which didn’t had been neither delimited nor demarcated; particularly since there have been transfers of administrative items between our two international locations. The time has come by means of the nationwide border commissions, the Congolese and the Gabonese, in addition to the blended technical border fee, to resolve these issues. And we don’t assume that for the time being, these issues may give rise to main conflicts as a result of they’re within the fingers of consultants who grasp the sphere, the methodology of border delimitation.tempered the educational.
Furthermore, Professor Ropivia indicated that “the territorial formation of Gabon befell in historical past by means of the formation of borders and inside administrative items. This historical past of the formation of the borders of a nation, of a State is one thing vital within the formation of citizen consciousness, within the formation of the patriotic sense and within the capability {that a} citizen should have to defend the territorial integrity. To do that, he should first grasp the historical past of the formation of his nation’s borders. It is likely one of the elementary components of civic schooling that data of the historical past of the formation of the borders of a rustic”he advisable.
The theme regarding ”the tutorial downside within the Gabonese border margins” was the opposite heart of curiosity throughout this convention, the topic of the intervention and investigation of Professor Serge Loungou, lecturer in political geography.
The Dean of the School of Letters and Human Sciences of UOB knowledgeable that “the border margins are territories that stay a bit of aside. These are areas which current human vacancy, which expertise an infrastructural delay, significantly within the area of faculty constructions and these are areas that are doomed to extroversion, significantly on the socio-political degree as a result of they’re very poorly related or poorly related to the remainder of the nation. And the populations dwelling in these margins are inclined to go and fulfill their wants on the opposite aspect of the border.famous the educational in the midst of the debates and exchanges.
“This example carries a long-term danger, as we see in a sure variety of international locations the place there are separatist needs and rettachist needs. If the populations who’re on these margins have the sensation that they’re deserted by the nationals and the federal government, they are going to develop centrifugal forces which in the long term will threaten the soundness and integrity of a territory.warns Professor Loungou.
Gabon shares a land border of 353 kilometers with Equatorial Guinea within the northwest, 295 kilometers with Cameroon within the north and 1918 kilometers with Congo from the northeast to the south. Maritime borders separate Gabon with Congo to the southwest, with Sao Tome and Principe to the west and with Equatorial Guinea to the northwest.
African Borders Day was established to lift consciousness amongst States, establishments, populations, lively forces, civil society, teachers and Regional Financial Communities on the unavoidable actuality: no State exists with out territory, and no territory is viable with out borders.
Féeodora Madiba
2024-06-07 18:03:31
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