Joachim Yhombi Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/joachim-yhombi/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Joachim Yhombi Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/joachim-yhombi/ 32 32 Former Congolese President dies of COVID 19 https://jjcornish.com/2020/03/former-congolese-president-dies-of-covid-19/ Mon, 30 Mar 2020 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2020/03/former-congolese-president-dies-of-covid-19/ Former Congolese President Joachim Yhombi has died in a Paris hospital of COVID 19. He was 81. Yhombi was ill before he was infected with the coronavirus. ends intro Joachim Yhombi was an army officer who came to power in Congo Brazzaville in 1977 following the assassination of Marien Ngouabi. He was deposed in 1979 […]

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]]> Former Congolese President Joachim Yhombi has died in a Paris hospital of COVID 19.

He was 81.

Yhombi was ill before he was infected with the coronavirus.

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Joachim Yhombi was an army officer who came to power in Congo Brazzaville in 1977 following the assassination of Marien Ngouabi.

He was deposed in 1979 by Denis Sassou Nguessou, the current president of Congo Republic.

Yhombi’s son Jean-Jacques announced his father’s death in Paris where he lived in exile.

Accused of mounting a coup against Sassou Nguessou, Yhombi was jailed from 1987 to 1990.

He was released before the 1991 election that brought multi-party democracy to his country.

He founded the Rally For Democracy and Development and lost a 1992 Presidential election.

He served as President Pascal Lissouba’s Prime Minister between 1994 and 1996.

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