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Former Ivorian PM Charles Konan Banny dies at 78

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Former Ivory Coast prime minister Charles Konan Banny died in a Paris hospital on Friday after contracting Covid-19.

Banny, 78, who was in office from 2005-2007, was being treated at the American Hospital in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine after contracting the disease in Ivory Coast.

“He changed my perception of Ivorian politics and of some of its actors,” said Guillaume Soro, another former prime minister who is now in exile. A member of the Ivorian Democratic Party (PDCI), French-educated banker Konan Banny became prime minister in December 2005 under a UN resolution. He served until April 2007. 

Data source: punchng

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