Robert Guéï - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Robert Guéï | |
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3rd President of Côte d'Ivoire* | |
In office 24 December 1999 – 26 October 2000 | |
Prime Minister | Seydou Diarra |
Preceded by | Henri Konan Bédié |
Succeeded by | Laurent Gbagbo |
Personal details | |
Born | Kabakouma, Man, French West Africa | March 16, 1941
Died | September 19, 2002 Cocody, Abidjan, Ivory Coast | (aged 61)
Nationality | Ivorian |
Political party | Independent |
Spouse(s) | Rose Guéï (?-2002; their deaths) |
*President of the National Public Salvation Committee until 4 January 2000 |
Robert Guéï (French pronunciation: [ɡe.i]; March 16, 1941 – September 19, 2002) was an Ivorian military ruler. He was the 3rd President of Ivory Coast from December 24, 1999 to October 26, 2000. Bédié was overthrown in a coup on Christmas Eve, 1999.
In September 2002, he was murdered although this is unsolved.[1]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "IVORY COAST: Funeral for former military ruler Robert Guei, nearly four years after he was shot dead during the coup of 2001", ITN Source: 19 August 2006. Retrieved 2011-04-11.