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Pascal Yoadimnadji

Chadian politician (1950-2007)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ344743
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Pascal Yoadimnadji (Arabic: باسكال يواديماندجي; 8 April 1950 – 23 February 2007) was a Chadian politician. He was Prime Minister of Chad from February 2005 to his death in February 2007.

Biography

Yoadimnadji was born in Béboto in the Logone Oriental Region of southern Chad, on 8 April 1950. He was a member of the Gor ethnic group, and was a lawyer.

He served as head of the National Electoral Commission from 1995 to 1997, during which time the 1996 presidential election was held. He was appointed as Minister of Mines, Energy and Oil on 21 May 1997, and subsequently he became Minister of Tourist Development in 1998 and Minister of the Environment and Water in 1999. He then served as President of the Constitutional Council from 1999 to 2004 and was appointed as Minister of Agriculture on 23 July 2004.

Yoadimnadji headed La Francophonie's observer mission for the January 2003 parliamentary election in Djibouti.

He became Prime Minister on 3 February 2005, when he was appointed by President Idriss Déby following the resignation of Moussa Faki. On 24 August 2005, Yoadimnadji announced that the government of Chad would remove all the accomplices of Chad's former leader, Hissène Habré, from official positions.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Pascal Yoadimnadji” is chadian politician (1950-2007). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pascal, Yoadimnadji and Chadian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 2007, 2005, 1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950-04-08. For this dossier, Pascal, Yoadimnadji and Chadian is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q344743. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1950, 2007, 2005 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from Pascal Yoadimnadji” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.