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Gabon Government Steps Down Following The Death Of President Omar Bongo
20 June 2009
Libreville - Gabon's government led by Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe Ndong resigned on Friday in line with a Constitutional Court ruling following the death of president Omar Bongo Ondimba, an official said. "The prime minister has presented his resignation and that of his government to the president," Ndong's spokesperson Max-Olivier Obame said. According to the constitutional court, the government's functions ceased once the interim president had been sworn in, but Ndong and his cabinet remained operational to oversee the country during the funeral. The equatorial African country is being ruled by Rose Francine Rogombe, the Senate speaker who was sworn in on June 10, two days after Bongo's death was announced, with a brief to prepare for presidential elections.
The country's late president Omar Bongo Ondimba was buried Thursday in a traditional funeral at one of his luxurious palaces in Franceville, attended by thousands of people.
The 73-year-old Bongo became president in 1967 and died in office last week after a 41-year rule, longer than any other president except Cuba's Fidel Castro and longer than any other head of state, except for the monarchs of Britain and Thailand. Bongo won successive elections in which no other candidates were allowed to run. When opposition parties first were allowed to form in 1990, he maintained his grip on power in the central African nation by allegedly buying off key opposition leaders.
He benefited from the country's oil boom, which pumped billions of dollars into the tiny nation of 1.5 million - money that was mostly syphoned off by the ruling elite, especially Bongo's family, who used it to buy dozens of properties in Paris' fanciest neighbourhoods. The late president was flown Tuesday to Franceville, the capital of his native province located 500km from Libreville, after a large military parade and honours by the foreign heads of state. A state funeral on Tuesday in Libreville was attended by France's President Nicolas Sarkozy and rulers from a dozen other African nations.
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