Gabon names first female vice president and new prime minister

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Category : International Published on: January 13 2023

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Gabon's President Ali Bongo on Monday appointed the country's first female Prime Minister Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda to the role of vice-president and named a new PM to replace her.
She is the country’s first-ever female vice president.
Ossouka Raponda, 59, was appointed in July 2020 after her predecessor stepped down. She was defence minister before that.
Ossouka Raponda was named budget minister in 2012 before being elected mayor of the capital Libreville in 2014, becoming the first woman to hold that position since 1956.
She is an economist by training who graduated from the Gabonese Institute of Economy and Finance, specialising in public finance.

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Gabon names first female vice president and new prime minister