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Dictionary of African Biography, accessed April 26, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:
(Bozize, Francois; Francois Bozize Yangouvonda; president, foreign military officer, general; born 14 October 1946 in Mouila, Gabon; graduated as a second lieutenant from Ecole Speciale de Formation des Officiers d'Active (ESFOA) in Bouar (1969); completed officer training at Ecole d'Application de l'Artillerie at Chalons (1973-1974); studied at Ecole Superieure de Guerre, Paris (1980-1981); joined Central African army (1966), became captain (1976), commander (1976), lieutenant-colonel (1978), colonel (1978), brigadier general (1978), major general (1979), and two-star general ( 2004); was head of president private safety unit (1976), director of the National Office for Ex-Combatants (1977), Deputy Chief of Staff of Central African Republic Army (1979), Minister of National Defense (1980); Minister of Information and Culture (1981-1982); founded Parti Revolutionnaire Centrafricain (PRC) (Central African Revolutionary Party) (1983); became president of the executive committee of Mouvement de Liberation du Peuple Centrafricain (MLPC); seized power in Bangui, formed union government (2003); was elected president of the Central African Republic (2005); offered peace agreements to rebel armies (2008); was reelected president in 2011)