Abel Goumba
| Abel Goumba | |
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| Vice President of the Central African Republic | |
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In office December 2003 – March 2005 |
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| President | François Bozizé |
| Preceded by | position created |
| Succeeded by | post abolished |
| Prime Minister of the Central African Republic | |
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In office 15 March 2003 – December 2003 |
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| President | François Bozizé |
| Preceded by | Martin Ziguélé |
| Succeeded by | Célestin Gaombalet |
| Prime Minister of Ubangi-Shari | |
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In office 30 March 1959 – 30 April 1959 |
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| Preceded by | Barthélemy Boganda |
| Succeeded by | David Dacko |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Abel Nguéndé Goumba 18 September 1926 Grimari, Ouaka Prefecture, Ubangi-Shari (present day Central African Republic) |
| Died | 11 May 2009 (aged 82) Bangui, Central African Republic |
Abel Nguéndé Goumba (French pronunciation: [abɛl gumba]; 18 September 1926 – 11 May 2009) was a Central African political figure. During the late 1950s, he headed the government in the period prior to independence from France, and following independence he was an unsuccessful candidate for President of the Central African Republic four times (1981, 1993, 1999, and 2005). Goumba, who was President of the Patriotic Front for Progress (FPP) political party, served under President François Bozizé as Prime Minister from March 2003 to December 2003 and then as Vice-President from December 2003 to March 2005. Subsequently, he was appointed to the official post of Ombudsman.
He was born in 1926 in Grimari, Ouaka Prefecture in the Oubangi-Chari French colony, which is now the Central African Republic. He was a qualified medical doctor and member of the medical faculty in Bangui.
While the country was still a French colony, Goumba was Vice-President of the Government Council from May 1957 to July 1958, President of the Government Council from July 1958 to December 1958, and was briefly Prime Minister in an acting capacity in April 1959, following the death of Barthélemy Boganda in a plane crash. He was defeated in a political power struggle by David Dacko in 1959 and then became a minor opposition party leader. He was in exile in France from 1960 until 1980. He worked for the World Health Organization in Rwanda and then Benin during the 1970s; while in Rwanda, he met his wife, Anne-Marie. Even after his return to the Central African Republic, he was occasionally arrested for political activity. He feuded with all of Central African Republic's presidents until 2003 and was declared by them to be a national traitor.
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