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Jean-Michel Bokamba-Yangouma, politician

24Jun

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Congo, High Profilers, Profiles

Jean-Michel Bokamba-Yangouma, politician

Jean-Michel Bokamba-Yangouma ‑ a Congolese politician – passed away on 23 June 2020 after suffering from Covid-19 complications. He was a prominent political figure from the 1970s to the 1990s, heading the Congolese Trade Union Confederation (Confédération syndicale congolaise, CSC). He was the President of the General Movement for the Construction of Congo (Mouvement général pour la construction du Congo, MGCC), a political party. Bokamba-Yangouma was from Cuvette Region in northern Congo-Brazzaville. He was the Secretary-General of the CSC from 1974 to 1997. During the single party rule of the Congolese Labour Party (PCT), he also became a member of the PCT Political Bureau in 1979 and was assigned responsibility for party organization. ...

22Jun

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Brazil, Noteworthy, Profiles

Marconi Alencar, politician

Marconi José Figueiredo de Alencar aka known simply as Marconi Alencar ‑ a Brazilian Politician from the state of Ceará – died from Covid-19 on June 21, 2020. Between 1962 and 1966, Alencar acted as Mayor of Araripe. In 1970, Alencar was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ceará. He remained in power from 1971 to 1975. In 1974, he was re-elected State Deputy and kept his post from 1975 to 1979. In 1978, he was elected State Deputy for the third consecutive time. His third tenure lasted from 1979 to 1983. In 1982, Alencar was elected State Deputy for the fourth and last time. This time remaining in charge from 1983 to 1987. On June 21, 2020, Alencar died in Fortaleza at the age of 81 due to complications brought on by COVID-19. ...

19Jun

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High Profilers, Profiles, Russia

Mikhail Ignatyev, politician

Mikhail Vasilyevich Ignatyev ‑ a Chuvash politician who served as the Head of the Chuvash Republic, a position that was known as the President of the Chuvash Republic until 2011 – died of Covid-19 on 18 June 2020. On 29 January 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed Ignatyev and replaced him with Oleg Nikolayev as acting head. This followed a series of scandals in which Ignatyev reportedly humiliated an emergency service worker by dangling keys to a fire truck above them, forcing them to jump to retrieve them, and calling for journalists in the republic to be "wiped out".

17Jun

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High Profilers, India, Profiles

Haribhau Jawale, politician

Haribhau Madhav Jawale ‑ a politician from northern Indian state of Maharashtra– died of COVID-19 at Bombay Hospital in Mumbai on 16 June 2020. The Bharatiya Janata Party leader hailed from Jalgaon district in the Khandesh region of Maharashtra state. Jawale was a member of the Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha from 1999-2004. He was elected to the 14th Lok Sabha in April, 2007 in a by-election from Jalgaon constituency in Maharashtra. He was re-elected to the 15th Lok Sabha from Raver constituency in Maharashtra. In March 2014, Jawale was re-nominated for 16th Lok Sabha from Raver constituency, but a week after BJP changed its nomination to Raksha Khadse. In October 2014, he contested the 2014 Maharashtra State Assembly election from Raver Vidhan Sabha constituency and defe...

17Jun

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Brazil, High Profilers, Profiles

Paulinho Paiakan, politician

Paulinho Paiakan ‑ a leader of the Kayapo people, an indigenous tribe of Brazil ‑ died on June 16, 2020, at the Hospital Público Regional do Araguaia in Redenção, Pará, having been hospitalized with COVID-19. He led the Kayapo in their protests against destruction of the Amazon rainforest. Paiakan was hired by the Brazilian government in 1971 to facilitate the construction of the Trans-Amazonian highway system through Kayapo lands. Once Paiakan saw the nature of the project first hand, he quit his job and began to mobilize his people against the project. He took a splinter group of his home village and settled a new village named Aukre, where he set out to videotape the destruction of the rainforest and the Kayapo traditions. Paiakan became known ...

16Jun

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Renato de Jesus, politician

José Renato de Jesus aka Renato de Jesus ‑ a Brazilian Politician from the state of Rio de Janeiro – died from Covid-19 on June 15, 2020. De Jesus started his political career in 1992 when he was elected City councilor of Belford Roxo. He remained in City council from 1993 to 1995. In 1994, he decided to run and was later elected Member of the Legislative Assembly of Rio de Janeiro. He kept his post as a State Deputy for two consecutive tenures between 1995 and 2002 after being re-elected once in 1998. In 2002, he unsuccessfully attempted re-election. Although he failed to secure enough votes in order to be directly elected, he was appointed suplente, a substitute Deputy that only takes office if a permanent or temporary vacancy within this coalition occurs. ...

16Jun

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High Profilers, Nigeria, Profiles

Sikiru Osinowo, politician

Sikiru Osinowo aka pepperito ‑ the Senator representing Lagos East Senatorial District in Nigeria ‑ passed away on June 15, 2020, after contracting coronavirus-related illnesses. The deceased had been placed under isolation to prevent a possible spread after contracting the virus. Osinowo’s death was confirmed by one of his family member, Chairman of Agboyi-Ketu Local Council Development Area (LCDA), Dele Osinowo. Commiserating with the Osinowo family over the loss, All Progressives Congress (APC) Lagos Chapter, described the deceased as a leading light during struggle for the revalidation of June 12. According to the party, Osinowo was a strong pillar and a stabilizing force at the Lagos State House of Assembly where he served the state before been elected to repre...

15Jun

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Bangladesh, High Profilers, Profiles

Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran, politician

Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran ‑ a Bangladeshi politician and the first elected mayor of Sylhet city corporation – succumbed to Covid-19 on 15 June 2020. He was elected twice as mayor of Sylhet City. In 2013, he lost to Arif by nearly 3,000 votes. He was also a member on the standing Committee of Awami League. Kamran was born on 1 January 1951. He was elected ward commissioner of Sylhet in 1973, when he was still a high school student. Kamran was elected Chairman of Sylhet municipality board in 1995. From 1989 to 2002, he served as the General Secretary of Sylhet city unit of Awami League. He became the mayor of Sylhet city by defeating Muhammad Abdul Haque in March 2003; In which Kamran won the election by more than 20,000 votes. He became the President of Sylhet City un...

15Jun

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Pierre Lumbi, politician

Pierre Lumbi Okongo ‑ a politician in the Democratic Republic of the Congo – passed away on 14 June 2020 after contracting Covid-19 in Kinshasa. Lumbi was one of the founders of the Peasant Solidarity (Solidarité Paysanne) movement, which gained legal status in 1985. The initial purpose was to help the rural masses express their problems, resist forced cultivation of cotton, facilitate sales of their crops and help them find new business opportunities. After establishing a National Council of NGOs, the movement began making political demands, calling for a multiparty system at a conference in Kinshasa in 1991. Lumbi joined the government of Étienne Tshisekedi in August 1992 and April 1993, where he was Minister of Foreign Affairs. He joined the government of ...

15Jun

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High Profilers, Iraq, Profiles

Tawfiq al-Yasiri, politician

Tawfiq al-Yasiri ‑ an Iraqi military officer and politician ‑ died on 14 June 2020 in Al Diwaniyah, making him the first politician in Iraq to die from the COVID-19 pandemic.. He was a brigadier general in the events of 1991 in Iraq, and led opponents of Saddam Hussein's regime in the city of Al Diwaniyah, then fled to Saudi Arabia, where he stayed for several years in the Rafha camp. From there he went to London, where he was active among the opposition within the leadership of the Iraqi National Accord Movement led by former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. He later separated from it and returned to Baghdad after the occupation of Iraq in 2003 and formed a political organization called the "Iraqi National Democratic Coalition". He worked as a consultant in the first Min...