Omar Bongo in Spanish clinic

PRESIDENT Omar Bongo of Gabon has been confirmed by the Spanish authorities as being seriously ill in a hospital near Barcelona.




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"Bongo is in hospital here and currently his condition is stable but serious," a Spanish Foreign Ministry source said yesterday.

The Quiron Clinic in Barcelona also said Bongo was there but gave no further details.

According to Reuters, concerns over the health of the 73-year-old Bongo, Africa's longest serving ruler, who came into office in 1967, have mounted since his unprecedented move to suspend his functions as head of state earlier this month, citing the need to rest.

Gabonese authorities have remained silent about Bongo's state of health, but recent stays in hospital have raised questions over his successor in a country whose relative stability has been an attraction to oil and other investors.

Gabon has a tightly knit ruling elite and opposition leaders fear the president's son, Ali Ben Bongo, currently the defence minister, could step in to fill any power vacuum.

If only he could live for ever,

these silly Europeans, they criticise these rogues so much yet they allow them in for treatment!!

i hope he goes to the clinic made famous by the 'bday tummy tuck' some years back

May he die a violent death.
Stupid life presidents, mugabe is next to die.

In 45 years of power he never build a good hospital in his own country so he have to go in Spain.