Photo: Notre-Dame de Lourdes, Libreville · David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0
🇬🇦 Use CautionIs Gabon Safe for First-Time Travelers?
Safety Scores / Gabon
Travel verdict: Exercise Caution. The scores and risks below say why.
Safety Scores
Key Risks
- Military coup in 2023; political situation remains unstable
- Armed robbery and violent crime in Libreville, particularly at night
- Malaria is endemic; yellow fever vaccination required
- Very limited tourist infrastructure outside the capital
Travel Verdict: Exercise Caution
Monitor political developments; avoid demonstrations and large gatherings
Yellow fever vaccine required; malaria prophylaxis essential; hospital care is limited
Central African CFA franc; limited ATMs; carry sufficient cash
Emergency: 1730 (police), 1300 (ambulance)
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