{"id":5317,"date":"2020-03-31T13:28:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-31T13:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2020-03-31T13:28:38","modified_gmt":"2020-03-31T13:28:38","slug":"coronavirus-deces-de-lex-president-congolais-yhombi-opango-famille-officiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/?p=5317","title":{"rendered":"Coronavirus : d\u00e9c\u00e8s de l’ex-pr\u00e9sident congolais Yhombi Opango (famille, officiel)"},"content":{"rendered":"

L\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident Jacques Joaquim Yhombi Opango, qui a dirig\u00e9 du Congo-Brazzaville entre 1977 et 1979, est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 lundi en France des suites du Covid-19 \u00e0 l\u2018\u00e2ge de 81 ans, a indiqu\u00e9 sa famille \u00e0 l\u2019AFP.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMon p\u00e8re, l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident Yhombi Opango, est mort ce lundi apr\u00e8s-midi \u00e0 l\u2019h\u00f4pital am\u00e9ricain de Neuilly-sur-Seine pr\u00e8s de Paris. Il a \u00e9t\u00e9 bien\u00a0victime du Coronavirus\u201d, a d\u00e9clar\u00e9 au t\u00e9l\u00e9phone \u00e0 l\u2019AFP son fils, Jean-Jacques Yhombi Opango.<\/p>\n

La t\u00e9l\u00e9vision publique, T\u00e9l\u00e9-Congo, a confirm\u00e9 l\u2019information dans son journal du soir \u00e0 20H00 (19H00\u00a0GMT<\/span>). Son \u00e9tat de sant\u00e9 s\u2019\u00e9tait d\u00e9grad\u00e9 ces derniers temps le contraignant \u00e0 vivre loin du Congo, en France notamment, selon sa famille.<\/p>\n

Originaire de la Cuvette (nord), Jacques Joachim Yhombi Opango \u00e9tait n\u00e9 en 1939. Cet officier avait \u00e9t\u00e9 port\u00e9 \u00e0 la t\u00eate du pays juste apr\u00e8s l\u2019assassinat du pr\u00e9sident Marien Ngouabi (1968-1977), \u00e0 l\u2018\u00e9poque o\u00f9 cette ex-colonie fran\u00e7aise devenue R\u00e9publique populaire du Congo \u00e9tait align\u00e9e sur l\u2019Union sovi\u00e9tique.<\/p>\n

Il ne dirigera le pays que pendant deux ans avant d\u2019\u00eatre \u00e9vinc\u00e9 par le pr\u00e9sident Denis Sassou Nguesso, originaire de la m\u00eame r\u00e9gion que lui, qui cumule 35 ans de pouvoir depuis lors, avec une parenth\u00e8se de cinq ans entre 1992 et 1997.\u00a0Emprisonn\u00e9 apr\u00e8s son \u00e9viction, M. Yhombi Opango a \u00e9t\u00e9 lib\u00e9r\u00e9 peu avant la conf\u00e9rence nationale de 1991 qui a ouvert le pays au multipartisme.<\/p>\n

Il fonde alors le Rassemblement pour la d\u00e9mocratie et le d\u00e9veloppement (RDD<\/span>). Candidat malheureux \u00e0 la pr\u00e9sidentielle de 1992, il s\u2019allie au pr\u00e9sident \u00e9lu Pascal Lissouba dont il devient le Premier ministre entre 1994 et 1996.<\/p>\n

Il s\u2019exile en France quand \u00e9clate la guerre civile en 1997 qui va permettre le retour du pr\u00e9sident Sassou Nguesso aux affaires avec l\u2019aide des troupes angolaises.<\/p>\n

Son exil a pris fin en 2007 et depuis il vivait \u00e0 cheval entre la France et le Congo.<\/p>\n

AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident Jacques Joaquim Yhombi Opango, qui a dirig\u00e9 du Congo-Brazzaville entre 1977 et 1979, est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 lundi en France des suites du Covid-19 \u00e0 l\u2018\u00e2ge de 81 ans, a indiqu\u00e9 sa famille \u00e0 l\u2019AFP. \u201cMon p\u00e8re, l\u2019ancien pr\u00e9sident Yhombi Opango, est mort ce lundi apr\u00e8s-midi \u00e0 l\u2019h\u00f4pital am\u00e9ricain de Neuilly-sur-Seine pr\u00e8s de Paris. Il […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5318,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77,78,82],"tags":[5122,10810,4120,4191,15358],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-actualite","8":"category-afrique","9":"category-politique","10":"tag-congo-brazzaville","11":"tag-coronavirus","12":"tag-deces","13":"tag-famille","14":"tag-jacques-joachim-yhombi-opango"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imedias.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftmauthors&post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}