Michel Amani N'Guessan

Michel Amani N'Guessan (born 1957) is an Ivorian politician and the current[1] defence minister of Côte d'Ivoire for the Ivorian Popular Front (FPI).[2]

Biography

Born in Messoukro[3] village[4] in 1957, N'Guessan graduated from the University of Abidjan in 1984, with a specialisation in history and geography. He subsequently became a teacher and taught from 1985 to 1999, joining the FPI in 1990.[3]

N'Guessan was appointed Minister of National Education in January 2000,[3] during the military rule of Robert Guéï, and retained this post[5][6][7][8] until April 7, 2007, when he assumed the position of defence minister.[9]

gollark: If someone says "I am going to this university" and the government has to say "yes", it will break horribly.
gollark: If they go for "fund whatever college stuff people want", then no.
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gollark: Also, university/college is seemingly a useless signalling thing in a lot of cases.
gollark: The problem is that by adding yet more indirection between whoever is buying it and who is paying, you reduce the incentives for the prices to actually be sane.

References
  1. "Cote d'Ivoire". World Leaders. Central Intelligence Agency. 2007-07-17. Archived from the original on 2007-08-15. Retrieved 2007-08-29.
  2. "Côte d'Ivoire". OT Africa Line. Retrieved 2007-08-29.
  3. "Biographie du Ministre" (in French). Ministère de l'Education Nationale. 2004. Archived from the original on 2005-04-04. Retrieved 2007-08-29.
  4. Dujarric, Stephane (2005-12-20). "Highlights of the Spokesman's Noon Briefing". United Nations. Retrieved 2007-08-29.
  5. Lanoue, Eric (2003). "Gender and Education for All: The Leap to Equality – Côte d'Ivoire" (PDF). Education for All Global Monitoring Report. UNESCO. pp. 16–27. Retrieved 2007-08-29.
  6. "List of ministers in Ivory Coast's new government". AFP. 2002-08-05.
  7. "The Full List of Cote d'Ivoire's Transition Cabinet". Panafrican News Agency. 2005-12-28.
  8. "Two ministers dropped in new expanded Ivorian cabinet". Television Ivoirienne, Abidjan. BBC Worldwide Monitoring. 2006-09-16.
  9. "Cote d'Ivoire: Office of the President announces new 33-member cabinet". BBC Monitoring Africa. 2007-04-07.


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