Rais Bongo yupo hai

SERIKALI ya Gabon imekanusha taarifa kwamba Rais wa nchi hiyo, Omar Bongo(73) amefariki dunia.

Waziri Mkuu wa nchi hiyo ametangaza kuwa Rais Bongo yupo hai hospitalini, na ameonana naye leo asubuhi.

Bongo ni Rais aliyekaa madarakani kwa muda mrefu kuliko marais wote Afrika.

Alianza kuiongoza nchi hiyo mwaka 1967 hivyo amekuwa madarakani kwa miaka 42.

Rais Bongo yupo Barcelona nchini Hispania anapata tiba ya saratani ya utumbo.

Soma hapo chini

Gabon's President Omar Bongo, Africa's longest-serving ruler, is not dead, the country's prime minister said Monday, contradicting reports from Gabonese and French media.

Omar Bongo is Africa's longest-serving ruler.

Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong "deplored" French media reports that Bongo had died, saying he had met the president Monday morning.

He vowed to lodge a protest with the French authorities about "repeated leaks in the French press."

Bongo, 73, has been receiving treatment for intestinal cancer at the Quiron clinic in Barcelona, Spain, according to the Gabonews agency, which also reported Bongo's death earlier.

Spain's Foreign Ministry confirmed to CNN that Bongo is alive.

He is in Quiron hospital in Barcelona, Spain for a "comprehensive health check," the prime minister said in a statement.

"This morning I visited the President, accompanied by the President of the National Assembly, the Foreign Minister, the head of the President's cabinet and senior members of the presidential family and after a meeting with the medical team we can confirm that the President is alive," the statement said.