Aïchatou Mindaoudou

Dodo Aïchatou Mindaoudou Souleymane (* 1959 in Niger ) is a Nigerien lawyer , politician and diplomat . She was Niger's Foreign Minister from 1999 to 2000 and from 2001 to 2011 . Since 2013 she has been the UN Special Envoy to the United Nations Operation in Ivory Coast (ONUCI).

Life

Aïchatou Mindaoudou's family comes from the city of Zinder . Mindaoudou earned a Bachelor's and Master's degree in international law from the University of Abidjan and in 1991 wrote a dissertation in international law from the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris . She initially taught law at Niamey University , participated in numerous conferences and wrote as an author on the subjects of women, human and economic development and privatization .

Mindaoudou was already as a prominent party member of the National Movement of the Development Society (MNSD-Nassara) than in 1995 by President Mahamane Ousmane ( CDS-Rahama ) to the Minister of Social Development, Population and promoting women's rights in the government of Prime Minister Hama Amadou (MNSD- Nassara) was appointed. She headed the Nigerien delegation to the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995 . In January 1996, President Ousmane and the government of Prime Minister Amadou were overthrown by a military coup that brought Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara to power. When Baré Maïnassara was killed in a military coup in April 1999, the interim leader Daouda Malam Wanké appointed Aïchatou Mindaoudou as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in the interim government of Prime Minister Ibrahim Hassane Mayaki . The 1999 presidential election was won by Mamadou Tandja (MNSD-Nassara). Mindaoudou was no longer represented in the government formed by President Tandja in January 2000. The office of foreign minister was taken over by Nassirou Sabo (MNSD-Nassara).

Foreign Ministry building in Niamey (2007)

When the government was reshuffled in September 2001, Mindaoudou was again foreign minister, and prime minister was again Hama Amadou. In 2005 she successfully represented Niger in the border dispute with Benin over the island of Lété before the International Court of Justice in The Hague . Niger was the presidency of the West African Economic Community (ECOWAS) from 2005 to 2007 . During this time Mindaoudou was the chairwoman of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers for Mediation and Peace and as such was responsible for ECOWAS peacekeeping operations in the Ivory Coast , Guinea-Bissau and Togo . Prime Minister Amadou fell on a vote of no confidence in 2007. Mindaoudou, who was considered a close confidante of President Tandja, also retained her ministerial office in the subsequent governments of Prime Ministers Seini Oumarou , Albadé Abouba and Ali Badjo Gamatié . After Mamadou Tandja was overthrown in a military coup in February 2010, Mindaoudou was no longer made a ministerial post in the interim government formed by the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy .

Aïchatou Mindaoudou then embarked on a career at the United Nations . In June 2011 she was appointed Deputy Special Envoy for Political Affairs to the Hybrid Operation of the African Union and the United Nations in Darfur (UNAMID). For this mission, she was acting special representative and interim chief mediator from August 2012 to March 2013. In May 2013 she was appointed UN Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Operation in Ivory Coast (ONUCI).

Mindaoudou is the mother of two children.

Honors

• Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor (2006)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 323-324 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Biographical Note. Special Representative for Côte d'Ivoire. (PDF file; 69 kB) (No longer available online.) ONUCI, 2013, archived from the original on September 24, 2015 ; accessed on September 27, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Dodo Aïchatou Mindaoudou. (No longer available online.) Columbia University World Leaders Forum, archived from the original on October 2, 2013 ; accessed on September 27, 2013 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ Ban Ki-moon nomme Mme Aïchatou Mindaoudou du Niger Représentante spéciale adjointe à l'Opération hybride au Darfour (MINUAD). Nations Unies, Département de l'information, Service des informations et des accréditations, New York, May 13, 2011, accessed on September 27, 2013 (French). 
5. ^ Discours de Madame Brigitte Girardin à la remise de décoration de Madame Aïchatou Mindaoudou. (PDF file; 96 kB) (No longer available online.) Ambassade de France à Niamey, December 14, 2006, archived from the original on October 31, 2007 ; Retrieved September 27, 2013 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.