# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maurice-kouandete
# Generated: 2026-08-15T09:03:36.465Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maurice-kouandete"
name: "Maurice Kouandété"
slug: "maurice-kouandete"
description: "Iropa Maurice Kouandété was a Beninese military officer and politician. Kouandété enrolled in the army in his late teens. Over the years, he became popular among junior soldiers in the north and gained the contempt of those in the south. Jim Hoagland of The Washington Post described Kouandété as a \"moody, brilliant and highly ambitious soldier\"."
tagline: "Military Officer (1932-2003)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/44/Maurice_Kouand%C3%A9t%C3%A9.gif"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1932-09-22"
deathDate: "2003-04-07"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.95
  momentum:             5.847750865051903
  historical:           14.69964266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "莫里斯·库昂德特"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "موريس كوانديتي"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ماوريس كوانديت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maurice Kouandété"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iropa_Maurice_Kouand%C3%A9t%C3%A9"
    title: "Iropa Maurice Kouandété"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Μορίς Κουαντετέ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maurice Kouandété"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Kouand%C3%A9t%C3%A9"
    title: "Maurice Kouandété"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Maurice Kouandété"
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    title: "Maurice Kouandété"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iropa_Maurice_Kouand%C3%A9t%C3%A9"
    title: "Iropa Maurice Kouandété"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "მორის კუანდეტე"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iropa_Mauricius_Kouand%C3%A9t%C3%A9"
    title: "Iropa Mauricius Kouandété"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%2C_%D0%9C%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81"
    title: "Куандете, Морис"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Моріс Куандете"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://yo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Kouand%C3%A9t%C3%A9"
    title: "Maurice Kouandété"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump