Gabonese President Ali Bongo to fly back home after his stay in Morocco

Gabonese President Ali Bongo is expected to fly back to his country Tuesday, January the 15th, after staying in Morocco for weeks to recover, reports AFP.

While Bongo was in the Kingdom, Gabonese security forces foiled an attempted coup and arrested the people behind it.

According to the same source, the failed coup occurred after speculations suggested the President was «incapacitated or even dead». On New Year’s Eve Ali Bongo delivered a speech through Rabat.

For the record, the Gabonese President flew to Morocco after he was hospitalized in Saudi Arabia because of a stroke. He arrived in Rabat on November the 28th, 2019, after accepting the proposal of King Mohammed VI, said his wife Sylvia Bongo in a Facebook post.

For the record, Bongo was transferred to a hospital on October the 24th after he suffered a stroke during a conference. The country’s top court ruled, at the time, that Gabon’s vice president will head the cabinet in his absence.