Antoine Bangui

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Antoine Bangui-Rombaye (born 1933

foreign minister. However, he fell out of favor with President François Tombalbaye and was imprisoned from 1972 to 1975. He released his account of his imprisonment, Prisonnier de Tombalbaye, in 1980. This was followed by an autobiographical novel Les Ombres de Koh (1983). Bangui ran in the 1996 presidential election and became head of the Movement for the National Reconstruction of Chad
(Mouvement pour la reconstruction nationale du Tchad, MORENAT), an approved political party.

In May 1999, he released Tchad: Élections Sous Contrôle (1996-1997) (

Logone Oriental Region. In December 1999, Bangui was announced as the spokesperson for the Coordination of Armed and Political Movements of the Opposition (Coordination des mouvements armés et politiques de l'opposition, CMAP), a coalition of 13 opposition groups.[3] Bangui eventually resigned from CMAP. He was protesting attempts at dialogue by some CMAP members, which he felt were part of Déby's strategy of splitting the opposition.[4]

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