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Affiliation | Union of the Gabonese People |
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Name | Pierre Mamboundou |
Address | Ndendé, , Gabon |
Email | None |
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November 06, 1946
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Died | October 15, 2011
(64 years)
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Contributor | Ashley |
Last Modifed | IndyGeorgia Oct 16, 2011 08:45pm |
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Info | Pierre Mamboundou is a Gabonese politician and President of the Union of the Gabonese People (UPG).
Mamboundou was born in Mouila. He headed the commercial agency of the Office of Posts and Telecommunications from 1978 to 1979, and he worked at the Agency of Cultural and Technical Cooperation (ACCT) from 1979 to 1989; he was the ACCT's Director of External Relations from 1985 to 1989 and was based in Paris. In Paris on 14 July 1989, he announced the foundation of the UPG, an opposition party. After being accused of organizing an October 1989 coup plot, he was convicted in absentia and sentenced to ten years in prison. He denied the accusation and said that the plot was an invention of the government. Mamboundou was also dismissed from his post at the ACCT in 1989.
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