GABON: 11 candidats à la présidentielle se désistent pour Mba Obame

Les ex-barons du régime Casimir Oyé Mba et Jean Eyéghé Ndong se sont désistés© AFP
Onze des 23 candidats à l'élection présidentielle de dimanche au Gabon, dont les ex-barons du régime Casimir Oyé Mba et Jean Eyéghé Ndong, se sont désistés vendredi en faveur de l'ex-ministre André Mba Obame, candidat indépendant, selon un communiqué.

Onze des 23 candidats à la présidentielle de dimanche au Gabon ont annoncé vendredi leur désistement en faveur de l'ex-ministre André Mba Obame, pour faire face au favori du scrutin Ali Bongo Ondimba.

M. Mba Obame, 52 ans, ex-ministre de l'Intérieur, a été choisi "par élection à bulletin secret" par ces candidats - dont les ex-barons du régime Casimir Oyé Mba et Jean Eyéghé Ndong - lors de concertations lancées par l'ex-Premier ministre Jean Eyéghé Ndong qui se sont achevées vendredi à 03H30 (02H30 GMT), selon le communiqué de leurs discussions.

Un proche de M. Eyéghé Ndong ainsi qu'un collaborateur de M. Mba Obame ont confirmé ces ralliements à l'AFP, qui n'avait pu joindre individuellement tous les candidats, notamment M. Oyé Mba, autre ancien Premier ministre et un des favoris du scrutin.

Rassemblement fang

M. Eyéghé Ndong avait appelé mardi à une "candidature unique" pour battre Ali Bongo Ondimba, candidat du parti au pouvoir et fils du président Omar Bongo Ondimba décédé en juin après avoir dirigé le Gabon 41 ans.
Avec le soutien de M. Eyéghé Ndong et surtout de M. Oyé Mba, André Mba Obame se profile comme le principal challengeur d'Ali Bongo, considéré comme bien placé pour remporter l'élection.

"AMO" comme le surnomment ses partisans devrait notamment faire le plein des voix dans l'ethnie fang, relativement majoritaire dans le pays (entre 30 et 40%), selon les observateurs.

MM. Mba Obame, Oyé Mba et Eyéghé Ndong sont issus de cette ethnie.

Mamboundou et Myboto restent en course
Deux autres "poids lourds", Pierre Mamboundou, opposant radical à Omar Bongo, et Zacharie Myboto, passé dans l'opposition en 2005 après avoir été un baron du régime de Bongo, restent en course.

Selon le communiqué, les indépendants Ernest Tomo, Michel dit Mehdi Teale, Jean Ntoutoume Ngoua, Anna Claudine Assayi Ayo, les représentants de l'opposant Jules Aristide Bourdès Ogouliguendé ainsi que des indépendants Victoire Lasséni Duboze, Georges Bruno Ngoussi ont également voté le désistement en faveur d'André Mba Obame.

Mba Abessole se rallie à Mba Obame

Paul Mba Abessole, candidat d'un parti de la majorité et ancien vice-Premier ministre, "n'ayant pas participé au vote, a déclaré prendre acte du choix (des autres présidentiables) porté sur M. Mba Obame et s'est engagé à retirer sa candidature" en sa faveur, précise le texte.

Lors de la réunion, le président de séance Jean Eyéghé Ndong "a déploré l'absence des autres candidats de l'opposition n'ayant pas répondu à son appel" lancé mardi pour une candidature unique, ajoute-t-il.

André Mba Obame fut dans les années 1980 conseiller du président Omar Bongo puis plusieurs fois son ministre jusqu'à son décès en juin. Il a notamment été en charge des départements de l'Education, des Affaires sociales et de l'Intérieur.

Woman 'Pregnant' With 12 Babies Exposed as Fraud

Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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Just days after a Tunisian woman claimed she was pregnant with a record-breaking 12 babies – the 34-year-old has been exposed as a fraud, the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday.


The woman, who has not yet been named, reportedly told doctors in her hometown of Gafsa that she was due to give birth to duodecaplets later this month. She said she conceived the babies following fertility treatments, after suffering a number of miscarriages.

But an investigation by the Tunisian Health Ministry later revealed that she has "psychological problems and is unlikely even to be pregnant," the Telegraph reported.

"Our staff interviewed her at length, but even her pregnancy appears to be in her imagination," a government spokesman said. "She's claiming to be nine months pregnant with six boys and six girls, but there's absolutely nothing about her appearance which indicates this."

The official said the woman has also refused to undergo a medical examination and is now reportedly in hiding.

While experts confirmed the extraordinary pregnancy was possible, they said it carried "colossal" risks.

In an interview Tuesday, Dr. Manny Alvarez, managing health editor of FOXNews.com, who has in fact seen a woman pregnant with nine babies, said the likelihood of a woman carrying 12 babies to term is very slim.

"When you get to a pregnancy with that many multiples, often some of them spontaneously die," Alvarez said. "Anything more than five babies becomes a very high-risk pregnancy. The rates of premature labor for multiples are astronomical," he added.

Nadya Suleman of Bellflower, Calif., currently holds the record for the longest-living octuplets in history.

A WIFE IS PREGNANT WITH TWELVE BABIES IN HER WOMB

A new world record for multiple births is about to be produced, as an unidentified woman is pregnant with twelve babies in her womb.

A WIFE is pregnant with TWELVE babies, it was claimed last night.
The unnamed mum-to-be - a teacher - is said to be defying medical advice by vowing to give birth to ALL six girls and six boys.

If she succeeds, her brood - conceived after fertility treatment - will smash the world record for multiple births.
The tots' father, identified only as Marwan, is backing her. He beamed: "In the beginning we thought that my wife would give birth to twins.
"But more foetuses were discovered. Our joy increased with the growing number."
He said his wife was determined to have a natural birth - but doctors had told her it was IMPOSSIBLE.
British fertility experts warned the pregnancy in the Tunisian oasis town of Gafsa carried "colossal" risks.

All nine babies born to the current record-holder - an Australian mum in 1971 - died in Sydney.
Shocked Dr Mark Hamilton, of the British Fertility Society, said: "Twelve babies seems extraordinary."

The mum-to-be, who is being constantly monitored by experts in her home country, is said to have insisted she is "feeling fine".
She was also "looking forward to hugging her six boys and six girls".

The wife had sought help after previously suffering the anguish of several miscarriages.
It was not clear if she had IVF treatment or an alternative procedure called ovulation induction treatment.
IVF would have meant several eggs being fertilised outside the womb then implanted. OIT uses hormones to stimulate the ovaries so they produce eggs that can be fertilised the natural way.
When multiple eggs are involved, UK women opting for either procedure are offered the option of "selective reduction".
Some of the foetuses are aborted, so those left have a better chance of survival.
This also reduces the risk to the mother.

Stunned

The Tunisian government is said to have pledged to do all it can to care for the mother and her babies.
Her pregnancy comes seven months after Californian mum Nadya Suleman stunned the world by delivering eight healthy tots.
And in May Nuala Conway, 26, from Dunamore in Co Tyrone, gave birth to sextuplets - four girls and two boys.
Sadly one of the girls later died.


So gr-eight to be home, mum


OCTOMUM Nadya Suleman clasps six of her eight babies to her bosom in the first picture of her brood at home together.
The single mum swaddled 11-week-old boys Jeremiah, Isaiah, Macai and Noah in blue blankets and girls Nariah and Maliah in pink ones at her parents' pad in La Habra, California.
Other sons Josiah and Jonah were still in hospital.
Nadya, 33, who used a sperm donor to get pregnant, faced a public backlash after it emerged she lived off the state and already had six kids before the latest eight.