After the visit of Faure Gnassingbéwa of Togo to the recovering head of state recently on 7th May 2019, other expected visitors that have been announced including Mali president Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta and others who will head for Gabon on 8th June 2019 as the country marks 10 year-anniversary since Omar Bongo Ondimba passed away.
The visit will be a reinforcement of relationships with Gabon as president Ali Bongo Ondimba is recovering from a stroke. The latter returned to his country in January 2019 after opposition coup plot to dethrone him failed.
As announced by Jeune Afrique, President Keïta will visit Gabon after Ramadhan month.
The latter was a close friend of late Omar Bongo Ondimba and he once served as an ambassador to Gabon with residence in Ivory Coast between 1992-1993.
The Equatorial Guinea president, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo was also supposed to visit Gabon president on 9th May 2019 but postponed to unknown date following the death of his brother Antonio Mba Nguema who breathed his last in a hospital of Johannesburg, South Africa.
The office of the Gabon Presidency has not announced when Ali Bongo will resume office but highlighted that preparation of more visits are underway given that Ali Bongo Ondimba is the chair of the Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC).
Other expected heads of states include president Macky Sall of Sénégal and his counterpart of Rwanda, Paul Kagame.
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