Background
Bruno BOHIADI was born in December 12, 1922, at Beko, Chad.
Bruno BOHIADI was born in December 12, 1922, at Beko, Chad.
Educated at Edouard-Renard Higher Primary School in Brazzaville, becoming a schoolteacher in 1939.
Elected to the Legislative Assembly on May 31, 1959, for Francois Tombalbaye’s Chad Progressive Party (PPT), he was appointed President of the Legislative Assembly Commission for Legislation and National Defence.
In 1960 he went to New York as a member of the Chadian delegation to the United Nations. He came home briefly in 1961 to be elected mayor of Eort-Archambault (today’s Sahr). In 1963 he returned permanently as mayor primary school inspector until 1965, leaving the country again in 1966 to be Chad’s Ambassador to the USSR. Appointed in 1969 Ambassador to the Lnited States and the United Nations, he returned in March 1971 for the PPT Congress and was appointed High Commissioner at the Presidency in charge of fanning and External Aid in the shuffle of May 23, 1971. Seven months later he entered the cabinet with full ministerial rank, though he did not belong to the Party inner circle, the National Political Bureau.