Charles Konan Banny

Charles Konan Banny (born November 11, 1942 in Divo , † September 10, 2021 in Paris ) was an Ivorian politician and Prime Minister of the Ivory Coast from December 2005 to April 2007 .

Professional career

He studied in France and made in 1968 with a degree in economics at the Ecole Superieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales de Paris (ESSEC). From 1970 he worked for the organization InterAfricaine du Café (OIAC). In 1976 he went to the Central Bank (BCEAO) of the West African Economic and Monetary Union , based in Dakar . In 1986 he became governor of the BCEAO for the Ivory Coast and took over its management in 1990. Between 1986 and 1988 he worked for the World Bank .

Political career

With the mediation of the African Union , the civil war parties agreed on him as the successor to Prime Minister Seydou Diarra, who has been in office since February 2003 . After his appointment by President Laurent Gbagbo , who has been in office since the end of 2000 , he took office on December 7, 2005.

The Resolution 1633 of the UN Security Council gave him the authority to decide on the composition of the cabinet alone and obliged him to report on his work to the international mediators. The mediators were the Presidents of South Africa , Thabo Mbeki , Olusegun Obasanjo from Nigeria and Mamadou Tandja from Niger .

His interim government included representatives from all major political groups. Within ten months, the new government was to organize presidential elections, disarm the militias of the conflicting parties and overcome the division of the country into the government-controlled south and the rebel-held north. Banny herself was not allowed to run for the presidential election. At the end of December, the 32-member cabinet, formed after several weeks of negotiations, met for the first time.

As a result of a toxic waste scandal in Abidjan that left at least 1,500 diseases and three lives dead, the transitional government declared its resignation on September 6th. But President Gbagbo instructed Banny to set up a new cabinet.

In September 2011 he was sworn in as head of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission , which is supposed to investigate the events during the government crisis 2010/2011 .

In September 2021 Konan Banny was evacuated to Europe for health reasons. He died there at the age of 78 from COVID-19 .

Web links

• Short biography at BCEAO ( Memento from April 27, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
• IRIN NEWS December his nomination, 5, 2005 (english)
• IRIN NEWS about his appointment, December 7, 2005 (English)
• IRIN NEWS December to form a government, 29 2005 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Former I. Coast PM dies of coronavirus. In: Modern Ghana. September 11, 2021, accessed September 11, 2021 . 
2. ↑ Football star in the reconciliation commission. In: the daily newspaper . September 28, 2011. Retrieved September 28, 2011 . 
3. ↑ Cameroun - Côte d'Ivoire - Evacuations de Motaze et Konan Banny, atteints du Covid. In: Jeune Afrique . September 9, 2021, accessed September 9, 2021 .