General Roland Mambou Deffo dies in Paris

General Roland Mambou Deffo of the Cameroon military died on Sunday morning in Paris where he had been evacuated. He had suffered a stroke on Tuesday, January 20, 2015. The Commander-in-Chief President Paul Biya ordered the provision of a  special flight that took the late General Mambou to Paris. General Mambou was a hero of the events of the attempted coup of April 6, 1984. He had controlled communications operations from Zamengoé, which had helped to neutralize the mutineers.

Born on August 10, 1939, he had his primary education in Bafoussam in the Western region of the country, and then at the Lycée Leclerc in Yaoundé. From 1951 to 1958, he trained at the Strasbourg military school and then in 1959 he was at the Joint Military School at Saint-Cyr-Coëquindam. General Mambou was also a graduate of the Melun National Gendarmerie College in France. He was raised to the rank of General on the 25 September 2001. And since March 11, 2011, he was Inspector General of the National Gendarmerie.