André Nzapayeké

Tunisia, 2006

André Nzapayeké (born August 20, 1951 in Bangassou , French Equatorial Africa , now the Central African Republic ) was interim Prime Minister of the Central African Republic from January 25, 2014 to August 10, 2014 under the interim president Catherine Samba-Panza . He is non-party and Christian; his successor was the non-party Muslim Mahamat Kamoun .

Life

André Nzapayeké was born in 1951 in Bangassou, the capital of Mbomou prefecture , to a pastor and businessman. Nzapayeké, who was considered a brilliant student, won a grant from the European Community to study development research , which ended in a doctorate , and to study social anthropology at the University of Amsterdam . After his extensive training, he worked in finance . After he returned to Bangui after completing his studies , he opened an office for advisory and political activities in the early 1980s, which for a short time was oriented towards a party founded by Abel Goumba and affiliated with left-wing politicians, and which still exists today (as of 2014) bears the name Cossocim . After years in France, Goumba had only just returned to his home country at the time, where he worked as an employee of the World Health Organization and as a medical professor and rector at the Université de Bangui . Under André Kolingba , Nzapayeké was briefly Minister for Rural Development in the early 1990s, but resigned this post after a year to return to his own consulting firm. This is said to have worked closely with the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , from which his wife (today's ex-wife) comes, especially during this time .

In 2009, the technocrat joined the African Development Bank , or BAD for Banque africaine de développement in French , where he held the positions of President of the Personnel Commission and Director of the Administrative Council of five Central African countries, including his own. After a rather unfortunate candidacy as chairman of the Central African Economic and Monetary Union , in French for short CEMAC for Communauté Économique et Monétaire de l'Afrique Centrale , in 2011 Nzapayeké became Vice President of the Development Bank of the Central African States in November 2012 , in French for short BDEAC for Banque de développement des États de l'Afrique centrale , brought.

During the conflict in the Central African Republic (since 2012) , André Nzapayeké was elected interim Prime Minister of the Central African Republic in January 2014 under the interim president Catherine Samba-Panza . His appointment as interim prime minister on January 25th followed Samba-Panza on January 23 as the first female president of the Central African Republic. On August 5, the state radio announced the resignation of Nzapayeké, but without naming a successor in this office. On August 10, 2014 Samba-Panza appointed the non-party Muslim Mahamat Kamoun to succeed Nzapayeké and brought the financial expert to the government of the Central African Republic by decree.

Web links

• Official website of Cossocim (French)
• Centrafrique: André Nzapayeké, Premier ministre sans portefeuille - Report on André Nzapayek (French)
• André Nzapayéké, un technocrate à la tête du gouvernement de République centrafricaine - Report on André Nzapayek (French)

Footnotes & individual references

1. ↑ ^{a b} Central African Republic's PM, cabinet resign - state radio (English), accessed August 19, 2014
2. ↑ According to other reports, he was Secretary General; he is also said to have been Vice President from 2010 to 2012
3. ↑ Central Africa has Muslim Prime Minister for the first time , accessed on August 19, 2014