THE FALL OF THE BONGO EMPIRE (1/4). In the VIP room on the third floor of Barcelona’s Quirón clinic, the machines had stopped whirring. It was the sign of an end that everyone there had been dreading. On the bed, one could still make out the silhouette of the patient, covered a few moments earlier by the Catalan doctors. This time, the rumour was true: Omar Bongo Ondimba died on 8 June 2009.
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