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Jacqueline Ilogue Bignoumba takes charge of education in Gabon

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Gabon’s outgoing education minister, Camélia Ntoutoume Leclercq, handed over her duties to Jacqueline Ilogue Bignoumba in Libreville. The 16 October ceremony marked the end of the outgoing minister’s six-year term, during which she cited school reforms, teacher training and curriculum modernisation, according to the Gabonese Press Agency.

Jacqueline Ilogue Bignoumba took charge of Gabon's Ministry of National Education and Civic Instruction on Friday 16 October, following a handover ceremony with her predecessor, Camélia Ntoutoume Leclercq, reports the Gabonese Press Agency. The ceremony was chaired by the secretary-general of the government, Abdu Razzaq Guy Kambogo.

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