Abdoulaye Hamani Diori

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Abdoulaye Hamani Diori (born December 29, 1945 - April 25, 2011 in Niamey ) was a Nigerien businessman and politician.

Life

Abdoulaye Hamani Diori was the eldest son of the teacher and politician Hamani Diori and his wife Aïssa Diori . His father was the first president of independent Niger from 1960.

In a military coup in 1974, the Supreme Military Council, led by officer Seyni Kountché, took power in the state. Aïssa Diori was killed in the military coup. Hamani Diori was imprisoned in military camps and later placed under house arrest. Abdoulaye Hamani Diori and his siblings went into exile in the Ivory Coast , where their President Félix Houphouët-Boigny offered them safe accommodation. Diori worked as an international businessman. In the 1980s he made several attempts to destabilize the Seyni Kountchés regime. At least three times he led Tuareg rebels, those of Libyaoperated with the support of Muammar al-Gaddafi in attacks on military facilities in Niger. This included the attack on Tchintabaraden in May 1985, which claimed several lives. His father Hamani Diori, who was initially released in 1984, was arrested again because of the attack. Hamani Diori died in 1989.

Abdoulaye Hamani Diori returned to Niger in 1991 when the military regime had given power to the National Conference that initiated the transition to democratic institutions. He became involved in the re-founded Nigerien Progress Party (PPN-RDA), the former unity party of his father, in which he first headed the Niamey party section and eventually rose to party chairman. In the parliamentary elections on January 12, 1995 he was elected in the constituency of Dosso as the only PPN-RDA deputy in the National Assembly, where he was elected second deputy speaker of parliament. The PPN-RDA was one of the parties that boycotted the subsequent parliamentary elections on November 23, 1996 after the takeover of the officer Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara . Diori was a member of the short-lived transitional parliament formed after the fall of Baré Maïnassara in 1999. In the parliamentary elections on December 4, 2004 , he was re-elected to the National Assembly and took over the chairmanship of the Committee on Defense and Security. When President Mamadou Tandja ( MNSD-Nassara ) sought a third term in office that was not provided for in the constitution, Diori was one of his opponents alongside Mahamadou Issoufou ( PNDS-Tarayya ). After Tandja was overthrown, Mahamadou Issoufou was elected president in the presidential election on March 12, 2011 . Issoufou appointed Diori as his special advisor to the ministerial rank.

Abdoulaye Hamani Diori died a little later of an illness in Niamey. He left a wife and four children and was buried next to his father in Soudouré .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 181 .
  2. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 183 .
  3. ↑ a b Cherif Ouazani: Niger: la fin d'une époque. In: Jeune Afrique. May 17, 2011, accessed July 4, 2015 (French).
  4. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 445 .
  5. ^ Elections in Niger. In: African Elections Database. October 30, 2011, accessed July 4, 2015 .
  6. ↑ a b Siradji Sanda: Obsèques de feu Abdoulaye Diori Hamani: il était de tous les combats pour l'instauration d'un Etat de droit dans notre pays. In: Le Sahel . April 27, 2011, archived from the original on October 6, 2011 ; Retrieved on July 4, 2015 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Diori, Abdoulaye Hamani
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1945
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2011
Place of death Niamey