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Line 1: {{Short description\|Chadian scientist and administrator (died 2021)}} '''Toupta Boguena''' is a 40-year old [[Chad]]ian scholar and graduate of [[Brigham Young University]]. In 2003 she founded the [[Organization for Community Supported Sustainable Agriculture in Chad]]. She is the daughter of Noida and Yvonne Boguena, and has three siblings, a sister Rose, and brothers David and D'jelda Bougena. She has two children Amir Boguena, and adopted Neloum Bouegena. {{Use dmy dates\|date=August 2021}} ~~She recently took in a minister and his wife whose house was destroyed in flooding.~~ {{Infobox person \| name = Toupta Boguena \| image = \| imagesize = \| caption = \| othername = \| birth_name = \| birth_date = \| birth_place = \| death_date = 4 August 2021 \| death_place = \| burial_place = \| nationality = Chadian \| alma_mater = [[University of Arizona]], [[Brigham Young University]] \| occupation = Scientist and administrator \| years_active = \| known_for = Minister of Public Health \| spouse = \| children = \| mother = \| father = }} '''Toupta Boguena''' (died 4 August 2021) was a [[Chad\|Chadian]] scientist and administrator. She served as Chad's Minister of Public Health between 2010 and 2011. Since 2016, she had served as the executive secretary of the [[Niger Basin Authority]]. ==Early life and education== In the early [[1980s]] the [[Chadian Civil War]] brought poverty to her once wealthy family. Toupta's father Noida, a college-educated agronomist and ex-government employee, taught in a school with his wife Yvonne. [[Mass murder]] of government officials forced the family to evacuate south to the city of [[Doha]]. At age fourteen, Toupta saw pigs eating corpses, "It was a horrible sight. After that, I didn't talk much and became very withdrawn." Her parents sent her, her sister Rose, and her brothers David and D'jelda to a [[refugee camp]] in [[Congo]] where she lived for three and a half years. At age seventeen she returned to Chad and worked in an [[electric company]] in the [[capital]] [[N'Djamena]]. She found her father and paid for his medical treatment as he suffered from [[high blood pressure]] and untreated maladies, and found her mother and her siblings in [[Sarh]]. "They were so thin I hardly recognized them. They ate practically anything to survive." Boguena spent some time in a refugee camp in Congo for people fleeing a civil war in Chad. She was awarded a United Nations funded scholarship to attend the [[University of Arizona]], where she completed a Bachelor of Science degree in [[agronomy]] in 1991 and Master of Science in [[Agricultural economics\|agronomics]] and [[plant genetics]] in 1994. She then moved to [[Brigham Young University]] to do doctoral work in [[botany]]. Her work there focused on studying ways to control [[cheatgrass]], invasive to [[Utah]], using a locally found fungus. Cheatgrass is considered a problem for its potential to serve as kindling in wildfires.<ref name="Des">{{cite news\|title=Chadian leaps big hurdles to get doctorate\|url=https://www.deseretnews.com/article/595070452/Chadian-leaps-big-hurdles-to-get-doctorate.html\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811190031/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/595070452/Chadian-leaps-big-hurdles-to-get-doctorate.html\|url-status=dead\|archive-date=11 August 2011\|publisher=Deseret News\|date=15 June 2004\|author=Amy Stoate\|accessdate=5 November 2017}}</ref><ref name="NBA">{{cite web\|title=The NBA Executive Secretary Curriculum Vitae\|url=http://www.abn.ne/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=50&Itemid=43&lang=en\|publisher=Niger Basin Authority\|accessdate=5 November 2017}}</ref> ==Political and administrative work in Chad== In [[1985]] Toupta received a [[U.N.]] [[scholarship]] to go to [[college]] in the [[United States]]. Her father told her to "go to America but make sure you come home [to help]." The next day her father went into a [[coma]] and died. She went to the capital and then to the [[University of Arizona]] in the [[United States]]. She earned a [[bachelor's degree]] in [[agriculture]] in [[1991]] and a [[master's degree]] in [[agronomy]] and [[plant genetics]] in [[1994]]. She became a [[Mormon]] and got her [[doctorate]] in [[botany]] in August 2003. She currently teaches [[plant science]] at the [[University of N'Djamena]] and has a second part-time job as a translator. She works with volunteers to help eight villages in the [[Lagone River]] region become [[self-sufficient]]. Boguena returned to Chad after completing her doctorate in 2003, founding a grassroots NGO, the [[Organization for Community Supported Sustainable Agriculture in Chad]], focusing on improving agriculture in local villages.<ref name="Des"/> Boguena was appointed Chad's Minister of Public Health in 2010 in the administration of President [[Idriss Deby]].<ref name="NBA"/> She was removed from this post in December 2011, and was replaced by Mammouth Nahor.<ref>{{cite news\|title=Tchad : Idriss Déby fait le ménage\|publisher=Abidjan.net\|date=2 August 2012\|accessdate=5 November 2017\|url=http://news.abidjan.net/h/438339.html}}</ref> "I don't want to run away from it. I'm no better than anyone living [in Chad]. I was fortunate to have an opportunity to learn and make informed decisions in life that was not offered to others. I can't turn my back on them." In 2016, Boguena was appointed the executive secretary of the [[Niger Basin Authority]], an intergovernmental organization that aims to foster cooperation in managing and developing the resources of the basin of the [[River Niger]]. In this role, Boguena was working with member states and development organizations such as World Bank and African Development Bank to implement the programme for the Integrated Development and Adaptation to Climate Change - which is an initiative to protect the 130 million people living in the Niger basin from the [[effects of climate change]] and ecological degradation.<ref name="NBA"/><ref>{{cite news\|title=Niger Basin Member Countries Earmark $274m To Fight Climate Change\|publisher=Eagle Online\|url=https://theeagleonline.com.ng/niger-basin-member-countries-earmark-274m-to-fight-climate-change/\|date=2 June 2016\|accessdate=5 November 2017}}</ref> [[Category:Chad]]▼ ==Death== Boguena passed away on August 4, 2021 in Tunisia where she was undergoing treatment for a disease.<ref>{{cite news\|title=Tchad : décès de l'ex-ministre Toupta Boguena\|publisher=Al Wihda\|url=https://www.alwihdainfo.com/Tchad-deces-de-l-ex-ministre-Toupta-Boguena_a105921.html\|date=5 August 2021\|accessdate=17 March 2023}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Boguena, Toupta}} ▲[[Category:~~Chad~~2021 deaths]] [[Category:Health ministers of Chad]] [[Category:Chadian scientists]] [[Category:Women government ministers of Chad]] [[Category:University of Arizona alumni]] [[Category:Brigham Young University alumni]] [[Category:21st-century Chadian women politicians]] [[Category:21st-century Chadian politicians]] [[Category:21st-century women scientists]] [[Category:Year of birth missing]]