Editing Marien Ngouabi (section)

===Origins===
Marien Ngouabi was born in 1938 at the village of Ombellé, [[Cuvette Department]], in Kouyou territory to Dominique Osséré m'Opoma and Antoinette Mboualé-Abemba.<ref name="Liste des présidents de la République du Congo Brazzaville2014">{{cite web|url=http://www.consulatgeneralcongo.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31&Itemid=167|language=fr|date=17 August 2014|title=Liste des présidents de la République du Congo Brazzaville|publisher=Consulate General of Congo in Tunis}}</ref> He is originally from a kuyu humble family. From 1947 to 1953, he went to primary school in [[Owando]]. On 14 September 1953, he went to study at the ''Ecole des enfants de troupes Général Leclerc'' in [[Brazzaville]]<ref name="DOSSIER DE DIGITAL CAFE2008">{{cite web |url= http://digitalcafe.over-blog.org/article-17800565.html |language=fr |access-date= 2017-09-03 |title= Dossier de digital cafe |publisher= Blogspot |date= 14 February 2008}}</ref> and in 1957, he was sent to [[Bouar]], [[Oubangui-Chari]] (now the [[Central African Republic]]).

After serving in [[Cameroon]] as a member of the second battalion of the [[tirailleur]]s with the rank of Sergeant (1958–1960),<ref name="Liste des présidents de la République du Congo Brazzaville2014"/> Ngouabi went to the ''Ecole Militaire Préparatoire'' in [[Strasbourg]], [[France]] in September 1960<ref name="DOSSIER DE DIGITAL CAFE2008"/><ref name="Liste des présidents de la République du Congo Brazzaville2014"/> and then to the ''Ecole Inter-armes'' at [[École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr|Coëtquidan Saint-Cyr]] in 1961. He returned to Congo in 1962 as Second Lieutenant and was stationed at the [[Pointe-Noire]] garrison. He was assigned to the Pointe-Noire garrison as a deputy commander of an infantry battalion.<ref name="Liste des présidents de la République du Congo Brazzaville2014"/> In 1963, Ngouabi was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant.