Victoire Sidémého Dzidudu Dogbé Tomegah (born 23 January 1959) is a Togolese politician who served as the 13th and final
prime minister of Togo
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from 2020 to 2025, the first woman to hold the office. Previously, Tomegah Dogbé was the minister of Grassroots Development, Handicrafts, Youth and Youth Employment in the government of
Komi Sélom Klassou and also the Cabinet Director of President
.
Career
In 2008, while she was at the
United Nations Development Programme
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office in
Benin
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, the President of the Republic
Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé
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and the Prime Minister
Gilbert Houngbo
Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo (born 4 February 1961) is a Togolese politician and diplomat who was Prime Minister of Togo from September 2008 to July 2012. asked Tomégah Dogbé to manage the portfolio of Minister Delegate to the Prime Minister in charge of development at the base which had just been created in
Togo
Togo, officially the Togolese Republic, is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to Ghana–Togo border, the west, Benin to Benin–Togo border, the east and Burkina Faso to Burkina Faso–Togo border, the north. It is one of the le ...
.
In 2010, following the re-election of President
, Tomegah Dogbé was appointed Minister of Grassroots Development, Youth Craft and Youth Employment in Gilbert Houngbo's second cabinet. She retained her ministerial functions in the first government of
Kwesi Ahoomey-Zunu from 2012 to 2013 and his second government from 2013 to 2015. After the presidential election of April 2015,
Komi Sélom Klassou replaced Ahoomey-Zunu as prime minister on 5 June 2015. Klassou formed his cabinet on 28 June 2015 in which Tomegah Dogbé still retained her respective ministry.
Tobegah Dogbé was named prime minister on 28 September 2020 by President Faure Gnassingbé after the resignation of Komi Sélom Klassou.
References
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1959 births
Living people
21st-century Togolese politicians
21st-century Togolese women politicians
Government ministers of Togo
People from Lomé
Prime ministers of Togo
Union for the Republic (Togo) politicians
United Nations Development Programme officials
Women government ministers of Togo
21st-century women prime ministers
Women prime ministers in Africa
First women prime ministers