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Gabonese Prime Minister Jean Eyeghe g ddresses press conference at a hospital in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, June 8, 2009.dong spoke Mr Jean Eyeghe speaking after meeting with doctors treating the president, Omar Bongo and said he was "enormously surprised" by news reports from France that said Bongo had died .[AP]
The Prime Minister of Gabon Mr. Jean Eyeghe Ndong is expected to resign from office after the burial of President Omar Bongo and swearing in of the Interim President, according to reports from office of the President. It is reported that Jean Eyeghe has already submitted a letter to this effect after the Constitutional Court ruled that the old cabinet will dissolve automatically following the swearing in of the Interim President this week.
Following the death of the President Omar Bongo of Gabon last week, Gabonese ministers held an emergency meeting to nominate an interim president through their constitutional court process. The ministers and the judiciary are expected to endorse the Senate President Ms. Francine Rogombe as the as interim head of state.
Prime Minister Mr Jean Eyeghe officially announced that Omar Bongo died from cardiac arrest in a Barcelona Spain, on Monday June 8, 2009. Earlier, Gabonese official sources initially denied reports that the President was in the hospital at all, but later recounted that he went to Spain for a medical check-up.
President Omar Bongo was the youngest in a family of twelve children. He was born on 30 December 1935 in Lewai, a town of the Haut-Ogooué province in south eastern Gabon, close to the border with the Republic of the Congo. He was a member of the small Bateke ethnic group. Lewai his hometown was renamed Bongoville in honor of Bongo's efforts to modernize the town. He became President on December 2, 1967, following the death of the President M'ba on November 28,1967. At the age of 31, he was Africa's fourth youngest president at that time. In 1973, Bongo converted to Islam, taking the name Omar Bongo. And in 2003, he added Ondimba to his surname.
Meanwhile, the government has announced 30-day national mourning for the President. It is reported that security forces patrol the Gabonese capital Libreville and that Mayor of Liberville has banned large gatherings, and ordered the closure of all bars and nightclubs due to speculations of possible civil unrest and uprising in the country.
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