2025 in Gabon

• President: Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema
• Prime Minister: Raymond Ndong Sima

• 20 January – The Transitional Parliament approves a new electoral code.^[1]

• 12 April – 2025 Gabonese presidential election: Acting president Brice Oligui Nguema is elected as regular president with 90.35% of the vote.^[2]

• 3 May – Brice Oligui Nguema is inaugurated for a regular term as president.^[3]
• 16 May – Former president Ali Bongo and his family are confirmed to have been released and in Angola following an agreement between Angolan President João Lourenço and President Oligui.^[4]
• 19 May – The International Court of Justice rules in favor of Equatorial Guinea's claims to the islands of Mbanie, Cocotier, and Conga, which have been occupied by Gabon since 1972.^[5]
• 27 May – Trade unionist Patrick Barbera Isaac is appointed Minister of Labour, Full Employment and Social Dialogue.^[6]

• 6 June – Gabon announces its withdrawal from a 2007 agreement with the European Union that allowed EU vessels to fish in Gabonese waters in exchange for financial support to Gabon’s fisheries sector.^[7]

• 12 August – The government issues an amnesty for participants in the 2023 Gabonese coup d'état and the 2019 Gabonese coup attempt.^[8]

• 27 September – 2025 Gabonese parliamentary election (first round)^[9]

• 11 October – 2025 Gabonese parliamentary election (second round)^[9]
• 18 October – 2025 Gabonese parliamentary election (partial rerun)^[10]

• 11 November – A special criminal court in Libreville convicts former first lady Sylvia Bongo Ondimba and her son Noureddin Bongo Valentin on multiple criminal charges and sentences them to 20 years' imprisonment.^[11]
• 18 November –
  • Gabon signs the "Gabon Infini" climate finance agreement, combining $94 million in donor funding with $86 million of government money over 10 years to protect 34,000 km² (13,000 sq mi) of the Congo Basin rainforest.^[12]
  • The Specialized Criminal Court convicts nine associates of Sylvia and Noureddin Bongo of embezzlement, corruption, and money laundering and sentences them to up to 15 years' imprisonment.^[13]

• 3 December – Tourism minister Pascal Ogowé Siffon is placed under house arrest on suspicion of embezzling nearly $18 million of the ministry's funds.^[14]
• 16 December – US President Donald Trump issues a proclamation imposing partial travel restrictions on Gabonese nationals travelling to the United States.^[15]

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• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 30 March – Eid al-Fitr
• 17 April – Women's Day
• 21 April – Easter Monday
• 1 May – Labour Day
• 29 May – Ascension Day
• 6 June – Eid al-Adha
• 9 June Whit Monday
• 15 August – Assumption Day
• 16–17 August – Independence Day
• 1 November – All Saints Day
• 25 December – Christmas Day