United States Department of State (Washington, DC)
3 October 2007
Gabon is one of sub-Saharan Africa's most prosperous nations thanks to its oil wealth, and although nearby Sao Tome and Principe is one of the world's poorest nations, it is a vibrant, multi-party democracy "on the threshold of a dramatic change" thanks to that country's potential oil resources, the Ambassador-designate to both those nations said October 3.
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