The Libreville 2 project covers nearly 30,000 hectares, or approximately 300 square kilometers. At this scale, expecting the entire city to be completed within five or even ten years would be unrealistic. This is not simply about building houses; it is about creating an actual city with roads, water and electricity networks, sanitation systems, schools, hospitals, businesses, government services, economic districts, green spaces, and transportation infrastructure.
Full development should reasonably take place over 20 to 30 years. But this certainly does not mean that Gabonese citizens should have to wait until 2050 to see Libreville 2 come to life.
The first two or three years should focus on securing land, completing technical studies, arranging financing, and building major infrastructure. Within the first five years, an initial district could already be fully operational, with housing, roads, schools, businesses, parks, public services, water, electricity, fiber connectivity, and jobs.
Within ten years, several districts could form a genuine new urban center. After fifteen or twenty years, Libreville 2 could already function as a major structured city before progressively reaching its full metropolitan scale around 2050.
We must therefore distinguish between the birth of Libreville 2 and its final completion.
The objective could be simple: Libreville 2 operational by 2031; Libreville 2 as a full metropolitan vision by 2050.
A city covering 300 square kilometers should not be treated as the construction project of a single presidential term. It is a national project that must transcend governments, survive political transitions, and serve several generations of Gabonese citizens.
The real challenge, therefore, is not to build everything immediately. It is to start correctly today so that the country can continue building sustainably tomorrow.
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