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Kolingba was named officier de l ' Ordre de l ' Opération Bokassa ( Officer of the Order of the Operation Bokassa ) on 1 December 1971, officier de l ' Ordre de la Médaille de la Reconnaissance Centrafricaine ( Officer of the Order of the Medal of Central African Gratitude ) on 1 January 1972, chevalier de l ' Ordre du Merite Postal ( Knight of the Order of Postal Merit ) on 1 December 1972, commandeur ( Commander ) ( 1 January 1975 ) and dignité de Grand-Croix ( Grand Cross ) ( 1 December 1981 ) de l ' Ordre du Mérite Centrafricain ( Central African Order of Merit ).
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Dacko's efforts to promote economic and political reforms proved ineffectual, and on 20 September 1981, he in turn was overthrown in a bloodless coup by General André Kolingba.
In 1985 the CRMN was dissolved, and Kolingba named a new cabinet with increased civilian participation, signaling the start of a return to civilian rule.
General Kolingba was sworn in as constitutional President on 29 November 1986.
Following Bokassa, David Dacko was restored in 1981, only to be overthrown once again by his new army chief of staff, General André Kolingba after only a few months in power.
In May 2001, there was an unsuccessful coup attempt by Kolingba and once again Patassé had to turn to friends abroad for support, this time Libya and DR Congo were helpful.
Kolingba was a member of the Yakoma people from the south of the country, which made up approximately 5 % of the total population.
This later had disastrous consequences, when Kolingba was replaced by a member of a northerner tribe, Ange-Félix Patassé.
Another reason for the irritation was that most of FACA consisted of soldiers from Kolingba ’ s ethnic group, the Yakoma.
When former President Kolingba attempted a coup d ’ état in 2001 ( which was, according to Patassé, supported by France ), the Movement for the Liberation of Congo ( MLC ) of Jean-Pierre Bemba in DR Congo came to his rescue.
David Dacko remained president until he was overthrown on 1 September 1981 by André Kolingba.
With the return of democracy to the Central African Republic in 1993, Kolingba declared a general amnesty for all prisoners as one of his final acts as President, and Bokassa was released on 1 August 1993.
David Dacko remained president until he was overthrown on 1 September 1981 by André Kolingba.
Following Dacko's ouster by André Kolingba in September 1981, Bozizé was appointed Minister of Communications, but fled to the north of the country with 100 soldiers after his involvement in a failed coup attempt led by Ange-Félix Patassé on 3 March 1982, in which he accused Kolingba of treason and proclaimed the change of power on Radio Bangui.
He was put on trial by Kolingba on charges of helping the coup d ' état in May but was acquitted on 24 September 1991 and released from prison on 1 December.
Under pressure to democratize the government during the 1980s, Andre Kolingba had formed a political party and held a referendum, in which he was elected to a six-year term in office as president.
Patassé, Abel Goumba and Kolingba received 37. 32 %, 21. 68 % and 12. 10 % of the vote, respectively, but since none of the candidates obtained a majority, a run-off election between the top two candidates — Patassé and Goumba — was held.
Patassé was the first president in the CAR's history ( since 1960 ) to be chosen in what was generally regarded as a fairly democratic election ( 1993 ) in that it was brought about by donor pressure on the Kolingba regime and assisted by the UN Electoral Assistance Unit.
On September 1, 1981, Dacko was overthrown in a bloodless coup carried out by army chief of staff General André Kolingba, who may have had the support of local French security officers who are suspected of having acted without authorization by France's new Socialist government led by President Mitterrand.
Dacko, for his part, was not only unharmed, but eventually returned to politics to lead a party opposed to General Kolingba.
André-Dieudonné Kolingba ( 12 August 1936 – 7 February 2010 ) was the fourth president of the Central African Republic ( CAR ), from 1 September 1981 until 1 October 1993.
André-Dieudonné Kolingba was born on 12 August 1936 in Bangui, the capital of the French colony of Oubangui-Chari in French Equatorial Africa.
Kolingba and named
The Constitution was approved and an election was staged which resulted in Kolingba being named president for a period of six years, 1986 – 1992.
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On 3 February 1993 Kolingba established an interim organ, the National Provisional Political Council of the Republic ( Conseil National Politique Provisoire de la République ).
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Kolingba and Bokassa
On 29 February 1988, President Kolingba demonstrated his opposition to capital punishment by voiding the death penalty against Bokassa and commuted his sentence to life in prison in solitary confinement, and the following year reduced the sentence to 20 years.
When Emperor Bokassa was overthrown in 1979 and David Dacko was restored to power by the French, General Kolingba gained Dacko's favor and was made Army Chief of Staff in July 1981.
Kolingba and on
Patassé accused Kolingba and his partisans of attempting to destabilize his regime and wanted to put him on trial and so Kolingba took refuge in Uganda.
Kolingba finally returned to Bangui on 5 October 2003 during the last days of a National Conference ( Dialogue National ) which Bozizé sponsored to promote reconciliation and reconstruction of the country.
Kolingba died in Paris on February 7, 2010.
Kolingba and December
On December 30, the transitional constitutional court decided that all but five candidates — Bozizé, André Kolingba, Abel Goumba, Henri Pouzère, and former minister Auguste Boukanga — would be excluded from running for various reasons.
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** Andre Kolingba, President of Central African Republic ( d. 2010 )
Andre Kolingba then formed the Comité Militaire pour le Redressement National ( See History of the Central African Republic ).
Andre Kolingba, however, continued to allow the French to maintain military bases in the Central African Republic.
He began working for the Customs and Economic Union of Central Africa ( UDEAC ) in the 1970s, then became Director-General of the Union Bank in Central Africa, located in Bangui, before being dismissed from that post by President André Kolingba in 1981.
Kolingba moved Gaombalet to a position at the Development Bank of Central African States in Brazzaville.
A member of the riverine Yakoma ethnic group, Kolingba ( meaning " Male Buffalo ") joined the French military in 1954 and was transferred to the Central African army at independence in 1960.
In May 1986 Kolingba announced the establishment of a new party, the Central African Democratic Party ( Rassemblement Démocratique Centrafricain ) or ( RDC ).
André Kolingba, who ruled the Central African Republic from 1981 until his defeat in the 1993 election, was the candidate of the Central African Democratic Rally ( Rassemblement démocratique centrafricain ).
* David Dacko, who had recently been re-elected, quit as President of the Central African Republic, turned over control to army commander General Andre Kolingba.
Kolingba and 1981
When General Kolingba became president in 1981, he implemented an ethnicity-based recruitment policy for the administration.
Upon seizing power from David Dacko in 1981, the current President André Kolingba had declared amnesty for all misdemeanours committed during the tenure of his predecessors.
In September 1981, General Kolingba carried out a bloodless coup and took the place of David Dacko as head of state.
After overthrowing Dacko in 1981, Kolingba established a Military Committee for National Reconstruction to rule the country, but in fact he ruled as a military dictator more corrupt than brutal until 1986, when he submitted a Constitution to a national referendum.
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