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Gabon's President Ali Bongo Ondimba tells supporters that he feels "more ready than ever" to run for a third term after being invested as the Gabonese Democratic Party's presidential candidate for the upcoming elections on August 26. The Bongo family has ruled the country for 55 years already and is branded a "dynastic power" by the opposition after Bongo, 64, took over from his father, Omar Bongo Ondimba in 2009. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES