Armand Béouindé | |
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Mayor of Ouagadougou | |
In office June 18, 2016 – 2022 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Armand Roland Pierre Béouindé November 11, 1962 Kaya, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) |
Political party |
CDP (1990–2014) MPP (2014-present) |
Armand Roland Pierre Béouindé is a Burkinabe politician who served as the mayor of Ouagadougou between 2016 and 2022. [1]
Béouindé was born on November 11, 1962, in Kaya, then Upper Volta. [2] [3] Before becoming mayor, he served as a training manager and is the director of several companies; he's the commercial director of Alpha-Press, commercial director of Graphi Service, and general director of Graphi Imprim. [4] Béouindé also served as the vice-president for the Association for Integrity and Stable Development of Burkina Faso (A2DI), a coordinator at a managerial training group, and as the former president of ASFA Yennenga. [5]
Politically, Béouindé was originally a part of Blaise Compaoré's political party Congress for Democracy and Progress (CDP), but left with Roch Marc Christian Kaboré and other friends of his after the 2014 Burkina Faso uprising. [3] [5] He co-founded the People's Movement for Progress (MPP) with Kabore later that year, and served as a campaign manager for Kabore's election campaign in 2015. [5]
Béouindé was elected as the mayor of Ouagadougou on June 18, 2016. [2] [5] As mayor, his development plan for the city was dubbed Ouaga21, named for his deadline and final year in power in 2021. [5] Ouaga21 focused mainly on security in the city, environmental issues, and mobility. [2] He also made plans to increase water availability and other key resources to the city, earning the money by increasing tax availability and transparency. [6] A key tenet of Béouindé's policies in the city were expanding social welfare programs and promoting diversity, although this sometimes caused financial issues. [7] [8]
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