Yawovi Agboyibo
| Yawovi Agboyibo | |
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| Prime Minister of Togo | |
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In office 16 September 2006 – 6 December 2007 |
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| President | Faure Gnassingbé |
| Preceded by | Edem Kodjo |
| Succeeded by | Komlan Mally |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 31 December 1943 |
| Political party | CAR |
Yawovi Madji Agboyibo (born 31 December 1943) is a Togolese politician. He served as Prime Minister of Togo from September 2006 to December 2007 and was National President of the Action Committee for Renewal (CAR), an opposition political party, from 1991 to 2008. He is the Honorary President of the CAR.
Agboyibo was born at Kouvé, located in Yoto Prefecture, in 1943; his parents were Soklou Agboyibo and Doafio. He became a lawyer and was active as an advocate for human rights. In the March 1985 parliamentary election, which was held during the single-party rule of the Rally of the Togolese People (RPT), he was elected to the National Assembly as an independent, winning the seat for Yoto Est constituency with 82.63% of the vote.
In 1987, President Gnassingbé Eyadéma appointed Agboyibo as President of the National Commission for Human Rights, which was created by the government on 9 June 1987 and inaugurated on 21 October 1987. He served in that position until 1990.
Agboyibo was re-elected to the National Assembly in 1990, serving as a Deputy until the National Assembly was dissolved in 1991. He was also a member of the Togolese League of Human Rights and was President of the Committee of Action against Tribalism and Regionalism from December 1990 to 1991.
Agboyibo was a leading participant in the struggle for democracy in the early 1990s and was President of the Front of Associations for Revival (FAR) at that time. He participated in the July–August 1991 National Conference and was subsequently a member of the High Council of the Republic, which acted as the transitional legislature, from 1991 to 1992. He also transformed the FAR into the Action Committee for Renewal (CAR), a political party, in 1991. He was a member of the Vatican's Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace from 1990 to 1995, and on 12 May 1993 he was awarded the first German Africa Prize.
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