Newspaper suspended for saying Gabon on 'autopilot'
L'Aube (Dawn) newspaper on Monday ran a story headlined "Gabon on (very dangerous) autopilot" and suggested that Prime Minister Lucie Mboussou be appointed interim president.
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Lack of official news -- along with memories of the secrecy-shrouded demise of Bongo's father, Omar Bongo, who died in office in 2009 after decades at the helm -- has set the rumour mill churning at full tilt with suggestions that he is incapacitated or even dead.
The spokeswoman of the High Authority of Communications (HAC) watchdog said it was not up to the media or anybody else to provide "dangerous" interpretations of the law.
"Law is a science and the technical interpretation of legal texts" was a specialised task, Lucie Akalane said.
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The paper's editor, Orca Boudiandza Mouelle, was also banned for six months.
At the end of October, the HAC took Cameroonian television channel Vision 4 off the air for announcing that 59-year-old Bongo was dead.
Bongo's spokesman Ike Ngouoni said doctors had diagnosed him with "severe fatigue" and ordered bed rest.
A foreign source close to the couple told AFP on Wednesday that Bongo had had a stroke.
Bongo is however still officially expected in Paris on Sunday for a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the armistice that ended World War I.
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