As night falls in Gabon's capital Libreville, 13-year-old Arthur Goma stakes his patch for scraping out an existence in a country torn apart by devastating wealth inequality. For the street children of Libreville, survival is a nocturnal struggle of begging and gangland battles in a west African country which was once considered as one of the richest in Africa.

The government of Gabon has heard that it needs to expand its inter-ministerial commission against child trafficking, reinforce its laws on illegal child immigration and repatriation, and sensitise its security forces in order to minimise the exploitation of children.

A full 10 percent of the land mass of the African country of Gabon will be set aside for a system of national parks, the nation's government announced last Wednesday. Gabon, which had no national park system until this week, contains some of the most pristine tropical rainforests on earth, home to gorillas, chimpanzees, forest elephants and a host of other wildlife.

There have been a total of 91 confirmed cases of the Ebola virus in the Republic of Congo (RoC) and neighbouring Gabon, the World Health Organisation (WHO) reported in its latest situation update on 15 March.

A three-day workshop aimed at strengthening efforts to fight child trafficking in West and Central Africa began on Wednesday in Libreville, Gabon.