Prime minister appointed under Congo's 1992 multiparty constitution
Appointed prime minister on 2 September 1992 with his government named on 7 September, he lost a no-confidence vote to the PCT-URD alliance on 31 October 1992.
Politician of Congo-Brazzaville. A government minister in the late 1960s, he was sentenced to ten years in prison in 1970 over an alleged anti-government plot, tortured in detention, and released in 1971 in poor health into exile in France. He returned with the introduction of multiparty politics in 1990, joined the presidium of the 1991 Sovereign National Conference, and was appointed prime minister by President Pascal Lissouba on 2 September 1992. Defeated by a no-confidence vote of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) and the Union for Democratic Renewal (URD) on 31 October, he resigned on 11 November. He went into exile in Belgium during the 1997 civil war and died in Brussels on 7 October 2007.
Activities and affiliations
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1992
Republic of the Congo state institutionsPrime MinisterMain
Government and administration
Career Timeline
- 1964–1965President of the Economic and Social Council
- 1966Secretary of State at the Presidency for agriculture
- 1968Minister of Agriculture
- 1969–1970Minister of Public Works, Housing and Transport; dismissed by Ngouabi
- 1970–1971Sentenced to ten years for alleged complicity in an anti-government plot; imprisoned
- 1971–1977Exile in France
- late 1990sSpecial Adviser to the President with Minister of State rank, President of the Sociocultural Committee, Minister of National Defense
- 1991Seconded the presidium of the Sovereign National Conference under Ernest Kombo
- 1992Elected to the National Assembly for Mbama, Cuvette-Ouest
- 1992Prime Minister (2 September – 6 December)
Related historical events
The 1991 Sovereign National Conference and its presidium
On 4 July 1990 the central committee of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT) formally recognised multiparty politics and the need to abandon Marxist-Leninist ideology; on 30 September 1990 it decided to introduce multiparty politics immediately and to convene a national conference, formally ending the single-party system. The Sovereign National Conference opened in Brazzaville on 25 February 1991 and ran until 10 June, bringing together 1,202 delegates from parties, unions, civil society, the armed forces and religious bodies; it declared itself sovereign and claimed authority superior to the existing institutions. Bongho-Nouarra entered its leadership. When the presidium headed by Ernest Kombo, bishop of Owando, was constituted on 15 March 1991, he was named among those seconding Kombo alongside Claude-Ernest Ndalla and Simon-Pierre Kikhounga-Ngot, and the English-language account records him as Second Vice-President of the conference. The conference suspended President Denis Sassou-Nguesso's presidential attributions without deposing him and restored the symbols of the republic; on 4 June 1991 it adopted the Acte fondamental setting the rules of the transition, and it elected Andre Milongo as transitional prime minister on the fourth round, overtaking Pascal Lissouba, who had led the early rounds. It also reviewed the political responsibility of the PCT and its leaders, designating Sassou-Nguesso as responsible for corruption and political crimes and requiring him to repay one billion CFA francs to the state. This transitional framework became the channel to the 1992 parliamentary and presidential elections, creating the conditions in which Bongho-Nouarra himself was appointed prime minister.