| Simon Pierre Kibanda | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Office: | Permanent Representative of Central African Republic to the United Nations | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Term Start: | 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Term End: | ? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Birth Date: | 8 March 1927 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Kouango, Ubangi-Shari (now the present-day Central African Republic) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Death Date: | December 1999 (aged 72) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Death Place: | New York, U.S | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Spouse: | Sonia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Simon Pierre Kibanda (8 March 1927 – December 1999) was a Central African diplomat who held various ambassadorial positions.
Kibanda was born in Kouango on 8 March 1927 and belongs to Gbanziri.[1] [2] He enrolled at École supérieure de territoire in Bambari from 1942 to 1945.[1]
Kibanda began his career as a school teacher. Later, he was promoted to primary school inspector. In 1960, he joined Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a diplomat. He was assigned to the United States in September 1960 as first secretary at Embassy of Central African Republic in the US. He was posted to France in January 1961 and worked as first secretary at the Embassy of the Central African Republic in Paris.[1]
Kibanda was appointed as the Ambassador of the Central African Republic to Israel on 23 January 1962. In 1963, he became the first Ambassador of the Central African Republic to Chad. Afterward, he served as the Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany.[1] Later, he worked as a secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1970.[3] Bokassa assigned Kibanda as the head of the protocol service in 1971. Two years later, he served as the ambassador to the Republic of China and arrived in Taiwan on 4 March 1973.[1] [4] He then served as a Permanent Representative to the United Nations in 1978.[1]
Kibanda died in December 1999 in New York.[1]
Kibanda married an Israeli woman named Sonia. He was the maternal uncle of Catherine Samba-Panza and took care of Panza when her family moved to Bangui in 1970.[3]