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Bank and Public Holidays for Gabon

Gabon bank holidays, national holidays and public holidays for 2012, from the Q++ Worldwide Public Holidays Database, the professional source of international public holidays long trusted by the world's foremost diary publishers. The information on this page is provided for private, non-professional, use.

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02 May 2012 (Gouvernement de la République Gabonaise-Libreville) The government of Gabon has announced that Saturday, May 5, 2012, would be a regional non-working public holiday (chômée, payée et récupérable) to coincide with the upcoming legislative and senatorial by-elections. • 16 Apr 2012 (Gouvernement de la République Gabonaise-Libreville) The government of Gabon has announced that Tuesday, April 17, 2012, would be a non-working public holiday (journée déclarée chômée et payée) to commemorate Gabon's Women's Day public holiday. • 22 Jan 2012 (Gouvernement de la République Gabonaise-Libreville) The government of Gabon has announced 4 days of public holidays (journées déclarées chômées, payées et récupérables), next week, to allow the people of Gabon to support the Panthères national team in the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations football championship. • 26 Oct 2011 (Gouvernement de la République Gabonaise-Libreville) Gabon's Ministre du Travail et de l'Emploi has announced that Tuesday, November 1st, 2011, would be a non-working public holiday throughout Gabon (journée ... déclarée fériée, chômée et payée sur toute l'étendue du territoire national). • 14 Nov 2010 (Gouvernement de la République Gabonaise-Libreville) Gabon's Ministre du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Prévoyance Sociale has announced that the date of the upcoming Aïd El Kebir (Feast of Sacrifice) public holiday, would be observed as a non-working public holiday on Tuesday, November 16, 2010. • 08 Sep 2010 (Gouvernement de la République Gabonaise-Libreville) Gabon's Ministre du Travail, de l’Emploi et de la Prévoyance Sociale has announced that the date of the upcoming Aïd El Fitr (End of Ramadan) public holiday, would be observed as a non-working public holiday on Friday, September 10, 2010. • 10 Aug 2010 (Gouvernement de la République Gabonaise-Libreville) The government of Gabon has announced that the upcoming National Day holidays would extend from Monday to Wednesday, August 16-18, 2010. • 30 Apr 2010 (Gouvernement de la République Gabonaise-Libreville) The Gabonese Minister of Labour (Ministre du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Prévoyance Sociale), Maxime Ngozo Issondou, has announced that Saturday, May 1st, 2010, had been declared as a paid non-working public holiday throughout Gabon (la journée du samedi 1er mai est déclarée fériée, chômée et payée sur l'étendue du territoire national). • 11 Jun 2009 (La Vie Eco-AFP) Late last night, Gabon's Minister of Labor, Employment, Social Security and Social Relations, announced that the Gabonese Government had declared Thursday, June 11, and Tuesday, June 16, 2009, as one-off public holidays. • 25 Sep 2008 (Internet Gabon-Libreville) Gabon's Ministre du Travail, de l'Emploi et de la Prévoyance Sociale has issued a statement announcing that Wednesday, October 1, 2008, had been declared a non-working public holiday ("journée fériée, chômée et payée sur toute l'étendue du territoire national"). • More News Updates For the full version of the summarized news items above, and older news items not displayed above, go to the Gabon public holidays news and updates page, or worldwide public holidays news and updates page, or subscribe to one of our free email newsletters.

Governing Law: Official public holidays in the Gabon are regulated by the "Décret, n°000484/PR/MTE du 26 mai 2004", which amended parts of the 1998 Décret no 727/PR/MTEFP du 28 juin 1998 réglementant le régime des jours fériés, which itself repealed the 1992 Décret no 715/PR/MTEFPRH du 3 avril 1992 modifiant la réglementation du régime des jours fériés en République gabonaise. • National Day: Since 2002, the official National Day celebrations take place in 2 different regional capitals every year, in a rotation that is called "fêtes tournantes". In 2006, however, National Day returned to the capital, Libreville . • Renovation Day (March 12) and Martyrs' Day (May 6) appeared a few years ago on one of the online list of Gabon public holidays, and has since been re-copied onto multiple websites. However, we cannot find any reference to either of these public holidays, anywhere. • Gabon International Codes GA and GAB (2 and 3-letter ISO3166 codes) and .ga (ICANN national top-level internet domain). • Other Sources of Information The following specialized websites are also a good source of Gabon information and news: Bank of Central African States (Gabon central bank), ASI Hot Spots (security-related world events: terrorist threats, political strife, strikes, criminal activity, aviation incidents and health outbreaks), CIA World Factbook (Gabon maps, demographics and economic statistics), the IFES (information covering upcoming elections, referenda, electoral structures and voter participation in Gabon), and Wikipedia (includes Gabon commemorative dates that are not necessarily public holidays).

Observance : Any entry in the Observance column indicates that, in Gabon, the holiday may be regional or non-official or limited to certain religious and/or linguistic groups, or begin at a time other than midnight. Note that religious holidays are included only if they are national public holidays, or if the national labour code has specific holiday allowances for employees of specific religions. For more information, see our pages on the religious calendars of the world.

Religious Holidays : Public holidays in Gabon that are based on certain religious calendars may be subject to local variations due to differing interpretations between different religious authorities, or to seemingly arbitrary changes in the date a holiday is celebrated because it conflicts with another holiday that is based on another calendar, or because the day of the holiday is deemed inauspicious (bad luck). To find out more about these uncertainties, see the footnote below, if any, for each specific religion.

Muslim Holidays : Muslim bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Gabon were evaluated using the Umm al-Qura Calendar of Saudi Arabia which is used in Saudi Arabia and in most of the Persian Gulf States. Holidays may occur a day later in countries outside the Gulf region. The sunrises, sunsets, moon phases, moonrises and moonsets used in these calculations are based on the location of Mecca (latitude 21.42°N, longitude, 39.82°E, GMT+3 hours, no summer time rules). For more details on Muslim holidays, see Muslim Calendar Holidays. For Salat (prayer times) calculations, see our Freeware page.

Disclaimer
In many parts of the world, holidays are subject to arbitrary, last minute, changes by local authorities. While every effort has been made to present an accurate list of 2012 bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Gabon, we cannot accept any responsibility for any error or omission in the data presented above. You are therefore advised to verify the above dates with the embassy or consulate of Gabon, before planning any trip to Gabon. For last-minute updates to worldwide public holidays, visit our worldwide public holidays news and updates page or subscribe to our free email newsletters.