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href="/wiki/File:Beatrice_Epaye_(Central_African_Republic)_-_International_Women_of_Courage_Awards_2015.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Beatrice_Epaye_%28Central_African_Republic%29_-_International_Women_of_Courage_Awards_2015.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="199" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="150" data-file-height="199" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Emilie Béatrice Epaye in 2015</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Minister of Commerce, Industry and Small and Medium Enterprises</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />19 June 2005 – 2 September 2006</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Boziz%C3%A9" title="François Bozizé">François Bozizé</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/%C3%89lie_Dot%C3%A9" title="Élie Doté">Élie Doté</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Didier Wangué</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Rosalie Koudounguere</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Minister of Trade and Industry</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />28 January 2008 – 22 April 2011</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left">President</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Boziz%C3%A9" title="François Bozizé">François Bozizé</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Prime Minister</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Faustin-Archange_Touad%C3%A9ra" title="Faustin-Archange Touadéra">Faustin-Archange Touadéra</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Rosalie Koudounguere</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Mouliom Roosalem</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">ca. 1956</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Central_African_Republic" title="Central African Republic">Central African</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupation</th><td class="infobox-data">Politician<br />Educator</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Known for</th><td class="infobox-data">Director of The Voice of the Heart Foundation</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Emilie Béatrice Epaye</b> is <a href="/wiki/Central_African_Republic" title="Central African Republic">Central African</a> politician and educator. She has been a Government Minister and served in the National Assembly. Epaye advocates for better governance, economic development, and civil society freedoms, defends respect for human rights, and promotes national reconciliation. In 2015, she won the U.S. State Department's <a href="/wiki/International_Women_of_Courage_Award" title="International Women of Courage Award">International Women of Courage Award</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Women_of_Courage_(2015)_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Women_of_Courage_(2015)-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Emilie_B%C3%A9atrice_Epaye&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Emilie Béatrice Epaye was born about 1956 and trained to be a teacher. She has operated a family-run transportation business and engaged in trade.<sup id="cite_ref-PanaPress_(2001)_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PanaPress_(2001)-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="La_Fondation_la_Voix_du_coeur">La Fondation la Voix du coeur</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Emilie_B%C3%A9atrice_Epaye&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: La Fondation la Voix du coeur"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>La Fondation la Voix du coeur</i> (The Voice of the Heart Foundation) was established in 1994 by Lucienne Patassé, wife of then president <a href="/wiki/Ange-F%C3%A9lix_Patass%C3%A9" title="Ange-Félix Patassé">Ange-Félix Patassé</a>, to mentor street children.<sup id="cite_ref-PanaPress_(2001)_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PanaPress_(2001)-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The home she created, located in Bangui,<sup id="cite_ref-Children_of_Africa_Foundation_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Children_of_Africa_Foundation-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was originally a haven from violence or abandonment where children are fed, educated, given medical care and provided with training and safe haven.<sup id="cite_ref-Bamford_(2007)_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bamford_(2007)-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Upon Lucienne Patassé's death in 2000,<sup id="cite_ref-IRB_(2005)_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IRB_(2005)-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Epaye took over directorship of the organization.<sup id="cite_ref-PanaPress_(2001)_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-PanaPress_(2001)-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_career">Political career</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Emilie_B%C3%A9atrice_Epaye&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2003 General <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Boziz%C3%A9" title="François Bozizé">François Bozizé</a> led a coup against the former leader Patassé of the <a href="/wiki/Central_African_Republic" title="Central African Republic">Central African Republic</a> and took over the government. He established a broad-based transitional council including most of the opposition parties,<sup id="cite_ref-Osarge_(2014)_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Osarge_(2014)-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and charged them with drafting the 2004 constitution. Epaye was appointed as President of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the National Assembly and as a member of the National Transitional Council from 2003 to 2005. In 2005 she began serving as the Minister of Commerce, Industry and Small and Medium Enterprises and held the position for five years. In 2008 she became the Minister of Trade and Industry and held that position through 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-National_Endowment_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-National_Endowment-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2013 a coalition of armed groups calling themselves the <i><a href="/wiki/S%C3%A9l%C3%A9ka" title="Séléka">Séléka</a></i> (Alliance in the <a href="/wiki/Sango_language" title="Sango language">Sango language</a>) overthrew Bozizé's government. <a href="/wiki/Michel_Djotodia" title="Michel Djotodia">Michel Djotodia</a> declared himself president and plunged the country into a crisis. Djotodia's Muslim leadership in the largely Christian country resulted in the formation of militias, sectarian violence, and finally an agreement by Djotodia to step down.<sup id="cite_ref-Paracchini_(2014)_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paracchini_(2014)-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/UN_Security_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="UN Security Council">UN Security Council</a>, <a href="/wiki/African_Union" title="African Union">African Union</a> and French government sent troops to assist in stabilizing the area<sup id="cite_ref-Osarge_(2014)_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Osarge_(2014)-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a new Transitional Council was appointed. Epaye again was tapped to serve in the transitional government and <a href="/wiki/Catherine_Samba-Panza" title="Catherine Samba-Panza">Catherine Samba-Panza</a> was elected to lead the country during the transition. The next democratic elections will be held end of 2015.<sup id="cite_ref-Paracchini_(2014)_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paracchini_(2014)-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pan_African_organizations">Pan African organizations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Emilie_B%C3%A9atrice_Epaye&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Pan African organizations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>From 2003-2005, Epaye was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Economic_Community_of_Central_African_States" title="Economic Community of Central African States">Inter-Parliamentary Commission of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa</a> (CEMAC). She chaired the <a href="/wiki/African_Intellectual_Property_Organization" class="mw-redirect" title="African Intellectual Property Organization">African Intellectual Property Organization</a> (OAPI) beginning in 2008 and as a member of the Board of Directors, she drove the first African Conference on Intellectual Property in Dakar. 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