{"id":74278,"date":"2026-08-09T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/74278\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T09:32:11","slug":"libreville-grapples-with-water-shortage-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/74278\/","title":{"rendered":"Libreville grapples with water shortage \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Libreville grapples with water shortage \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KTpWZ6NC1Og\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nLibreville grapples with water shortage \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nGabon\u2019s capital, Libreville, has been facing severe water shortages for several months, driven by low rainfall, ageing infrastructure and rising demand from a growing population. The government declared a state of emergency earlier this month and called in military engineers for help. But a water distribution plan for affected neighbourhoods has failed to ease the crisis, after private water distributors took advantage of the scheme. France 24 reports from Libreville. Indira Ayuk, Isma\u00ebl Obiang Nze and Giresse Ngaana report.<br \/>\n#Libreville #Watershortage #Gabon<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Libreville grapples with water shortage \u2022 FRANCE 24 English Gabon\u2019s capital, Libreville, has been facing severe water shortages&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,2414,2416,34,22,23,20,21,61029,61410,9544,2633,4014],"class_list":["post-74278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-africa","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-eyeonafrica","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-gabon","tag-libreville","tag-shortage","tag-shortages","tag-water"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/117064874210909490","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}