Arlette Sombo-Dibélé
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Arlette Sombo-Dibélé | |
|---|---|
| Minister of the Environment, Sustainable Development, Water and Forests, Hunting and Fishing | |
| In office 11 April 2016 – 12 September 2017 | |
| President | Faustin-Archange Touadéra |
| Prime Minister | Simplice Sarandji |
| Preceded by | Sébastien Wénézoui |
| Succeeded by | Thierry Kamach |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 December 1958 |
| Alma mater | University of Bangui |
| Occupation | Lawyer Politician |
Arlette Sombo-Dibélé (born 8 December 1958) is a Central African lawyer and politician.
Dibélé was born on 8 December 1958. She earned a law degree and continued her postgraduate education at the University of Bangui, taking a private law degree specializing in judicial careers.[1]
Judicial career
Dibélé joined and worked at the Central African Bar for over ten years. She was also employed at the Central African Constitutional Court for seven years and four months.[1] After Touadera was declared as the winner of the 2020–21 Central African general election, she received appeals from 10 candidates over the election fraud and filed those pleas.[2]
Throughout her judicial career, she has been a lawyer to Karim Meckassoua,[3] Dieudonné Ndomaté,[4] Juan Rémy Quignolot,[5] Aurélien Simplice Zingas,[6] Thierry Georges Vackat,[7] Yvon Konaté, Thierry Savonarole Maleyombo, and Moussa Kitoko.[8] In 2022, she managed to acquit Ludovic Ngaïfé, Maleyombo, Konaté, and Ndomate.[1]
Apart from that, she is also the founder of a civil organization of the Group of Action of Civil Society Organizations for the Defense of the Constitution of March 30, 2016 (G-16).[9]
On 15 June 2019, an alleged presidential guard personnel threw a grenade at her, and she survived an assassination attempt.[10] Apart from that, she also received death threats from a Touadera supporter, Euloge Doctrouvé Koï, on 19 September 2022.[11]