Raymond Ndong Sima (born 23 January 1955"Raymond Ndong Sima : un homme d'action"
, GabonEco, 29 February 2012 .) is a

Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north ...

ese politician who was

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from February 2012 to January 2014.

Career

Ndong Sima was born in

Oyem Oyem is the capital of Woleu-Ntem province in northern Gabon, lying on the N2 road and the River Ntem. Geography The town lies on a plateau at an elevation of about . It is the administrative and transport center for the surrounding agricultural ...

, located in the north of Gabon, and studied in France. He was appointed to the cabinet of the Minister of Planning and the Economy in 1986, where he was assigned responsibility for

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and relations with the

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and the

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. In 1992, he was appointed as Director-General of the Economy; he remained in that post, while simultaneously retaining responsibility for structural adjustment, until 1994. He then worked as Director-General of Hévégab, a state-owned

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company, from 1994 to 1998.Gérald Mounomby
"Les deux vies de Raymond Ndong Sima"
, Business Gabon, 8 May 2008 . Ndong Sima was appointed to the government as Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Rural Development on 17 October 2009. In the December 2011 parliamentary election, in which the ruling

Gabonese Democratic Party The Gabonese Democratic Party (french: Parti Démocratique Gabonais, abbreviated PDG), is the ruling and dominant political party of Gabon. Between 1968 and 1990 it was the sole legal party. History The party was established as the Gabonese Dem ...

(PDG) won an overwhelming majority of seats, Ndong Sima was elected to the

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as a candidate in Kyé, located in

Woleu-Ntem Province Woleu-Ntem is the northernmost of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 38,465 km and named after Woleu and Ntem rivers that cross it. The provincial capital is Oyem, which had a total of 60,685 inhabitants in 2013. As Woleu-Ntem i ...

.Georges Dougueli
"Gabon : Ndong Sima, un Premier ministre qu'on n'attendait pas"
''Jeune Afrique'', 7 March 2012 . Prime Minister

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resigned on 13 February 2012. President Ali Bongo then appointed Ndong Sima as Prime Minister on 27 February 2012. His appointment was considered noteworthy in that traditionally the post of Prime Minister was given to an ethnic Fang from

Estuaire Province Estuaire is the most populous of Gabon's nine provinces. It covers an area of 20,740 km. The provincial capital is Libreville, which is also Gabon's national capital. The province is named for the Gabon Estuary, which lies at the heart of ...

, while Ndong Sima was from Woleu-Ntem Province in the north—although he was also a Fang. Prior to his appointment, Ndong Sima had not been considered a particularly important figure on the political scene. Ndong Sima served as Prime Minister for nearly two years. Following local elections in December 2013, President Bongo appointed

Daniel Ona Ondo Daniel Ona Ondo (born 10 July 1945) is a Gabonese politician who was Prime Minister of Gabon from January 2014 to September 2016. He previously served as Minister of Education and First Vice-President of the National Assembly. He is a member of th ...

to replace Ndong Sima on 24 January 2014. Ona Ondo took office at a handover ceremony with Ndong Sima on 27 January. In July 2015, Ndong Sima quit the PDG, complaining that the party was not open to criticism and different points of view. He also criticized the government's handling of finances since he left office. PDG Secretary-General

Faustin Boukoubi Faustin Boukoubi (born 20 March 1954"Gabon : ...

responded that Ndong Sima was an opportunist and insisted that the PDG was internally democratic."Gabon: le parti d’Ali Bongo récuse un manque de démocratie interne"
Radio France Internationale, 4 July 2015 .

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