Gabon names first female vice president and new prime minister

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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