The official statement published by the brokerage company Building Emerging Markets Securities (BEMS), the main arranger of the Gabonese State's 2024-2030 multi-tranche bond, indicated that the State finally mobilized 80.065 billion FCFA from investors. This corresponds to 65 million CFA francs more than the requested envelope

The 2024-2030 multi-tranche bond loan from the Gabonese government was initially scheduled from November 27 to December 29, 2024, but subscriptions were finally extended until February 15, 2025. According to the details of subscriptions revealed by BEMS, investors in Cameroon alone provided 78% of the requested envelope, corresponding to around 62.5 billion FCFA. The latter have thus invested four times more than the Gabonese themselves, whose subscriptions total only 19.62% of the envelope, or 15.7 billion FCFA. The brokerage company BEMS indicated in its official press release that “the funds raised will be allocated to the financing of infrastructure projects, to the revival of investments and to the consolidation of social achievements, in accordance with the commitments made in the framework of the National Development Plan for the