And feeling better and better each day," Bongo said in an interview published on Wednesday in the pro-government daily, l'Union. Bongo said he was "fiercely determined" to push ahead with a campaign against graft. "Mistakes were made in the past, but they won't be able to be made again in the future," Bongo said. During his months-long absence abroad for treatment, speculation over Bongo's fitness surged and the army quashed a brief attempted coup. There is widespread nostalgia for the free-spending reign of Bongo's father, Omar Bongo Ondimba, who ruled the country for 42 years until his death in 2009, when he was succeeded by his son.

Source: Daily Nation October 16, 2019 20:37 UTC