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Gabon suspends Cameroon television station after it wrongly reported president’s death
- Gabonese leader Ali Bongo Ondimba is alive and has gone to Saudi Arabia for treatment for ‘exhaustion’, his government says
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A private Cameroonian television station has been barred from broadcasting for six months in neighbouring Gabon after erroneously reporting the death of Gabon President Ali Bongo Ondimba, who is in hospital in Saudi Arabia suffering from exhaustion, Libreville authorities said.
Vision 4, thought to be close to the Cameroonian government, reported on Saturday that the Gabonese president had died.
Bongo, 59, fell ill last Wednesday during a visit to Riyadh to attend an economic forum in the Saudi capital, where he is still in hospital.
His spokesman Ike Ngouoni said on Sunday that doctors there had told the president he had “severe fatigue” and ordered bed rest.
Ngouoni called for “vigilance” against “fake news” after Vision 4’s report.
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