Gabonese President Ali Bongo has returned to Gabon, from Morocco where he was receiving medical treatment for a stroke, following last week’s failed military coup. He is due to attend the oath-taking ceremony on Tuesday of the new government he appointed over the weekend.

Bongo left the Moroccan capital Rabat and arrived in Libreville on Monday to attend the ceremony but will be returning to Rabat for further medical treatment after the new government is sworn in, Anadolu reported on Monday.

Gabon’s government said it thwarted last week’s military coup attempt after a number of soldiers and officers took over the country’s national radio station and announced the country was now under their control.

Later the army said seven of the mutineers, who asserted that Bongo was not up to the job, were arrested and two killed following a short fire-fight.

In November it was reported that Bongo was suffering from “fatigue” and “persistent vertigo” after he arrived in Saudi Arabia to attend an investment meeting.

After receiving medical treatment in Saudi Arabia the Gabonese president was invited to Morocco by King Mohammed VI for further medical attention.

Bongo, 59, came to power in Gabon in elections held following the death of his father, Omar Bongo, in 2009, who had ruled the country for 41 years.

Bongo senior witnessed Gabon’s only other military coup in 1964 when officers overthrew the government of the country’s first post-colonial leader, President Léon M'ba. The coup was short-lived and M’ba’s government reinstalled with the help of France.

The results of the 2009 elections were questioned and sporadic violence has plagued the country since then.

Despite the country’s vast mineral wealth a third of the population lives below the poverty line.