Jerome Sacca Kina Guezere (1952"Séminaire parlementaire"
Assemblée Parliamentaire de la Francophonie, 8–10 March 2004 . – 11 January 2005) was a

Benin Benin ( , ; french: Bénin , ff, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (french: République du Bénin), and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the nort ...

ese

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. He was the Fourth

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of the

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Pan-African Parliament The Pan-African Parliament (PAP), also known as the African Parliament, is the legislative body of the African Union. It held its inaugural session in March 2004. The Parliament exercises oversight, and has advisory and consultative powers, ha ...

.Speech delivered by the President of Pan-African Parliament Honourable Ambassador Gertrude Ibengwe Mongella, MP
at the opening ceremony of the Pan-African Parliament's third session, 29 March 2005. He was elected to the

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for the first time in the 1991 parliamentary election and was again elected in 1995. He was a founding member of the

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(FARD-Alafia) in 1994. From 1996 to 1998, he served as Minister of Rural Development under President

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. In the March 1999 parliamentary election he was again elected to the National Assembly as a FARD-Alafia candidate, and he became President of the Solidarity and Progress Parliamentary Group following the election. In the March 2003 parliamentary election, he was elected as a Union for Future Benin (UBF) candidate (with FARD-Alafia being one of the component parties of the UBF). He also served as First Vice-President of the National Assembly. He was elected Fourth Vice-President of the Pan-African Parliament when it was inaugurated in March 2004."INAUGURAL AND THE FIRST SESSION OF THE PANAFRICAN PARLIAMENT"
, press release, africa-union.org, 19 March 2004. He was representing the Pan-African Parliament at

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ian President

John Kufuor John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor (born 8 December 1938) is a Ghanaian politician who served as the President of Ghana from 7 January 2001 to 7 January 2009. He was also Chairperson of the African Union from 2007 to 2008. Kufuor's career has been spe ...

's inauguration for his second term in

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when he fell ill, and he subsequently died in Benin on 11 January 2005.

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