Abdoulaye Mounkaïla

Abdoulaye Mounkaïla (* 1955 in Sakoira ) is a Nigerien officer .

Life

Abdoulaye Mounkaïla became a member of the Niger armed forces in 1974 after primary and secondary school . He attended the military academy in Antsirabe in Madagascar from 1983 to 1986, and in 1988 he achieved the rank of lieutenant . From 1992 to 1995 he worked as a trainer at the training center of the Nigerien Armed Forces in Agadez . In 1995, Mounkaïla was appointed commander of the 122nd company of the 12th Partial Force Joint Battalion and promoted to captain . In 1997 he moved to the Presidential Guard.

The Nigerien President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara died on April 9, 1999 in a military coup . On April 11, 1999, Abdoulaye Mounkaïla became a member of the Council of National Reconciliation and commander of the Presidential Guard . The Council of National Reconciliation was a 14-member military junta that ruled Niger until December 1999 as a result of the coup. Mounkaïla remained in command of the Presidential Guard until July 2000, when the democratically elected President Mamadou Tandja was in power. He then worked as the head of the Department of Military Cooperation in the Ministry of Defense.

Mounkaïla was temporarily arrested in 2008 on charges of maintaining a secret arsenal in the capital Niamey and preparing a coup against President Tandja. Under Tandja's successor Mahamadou Issoufou , Mounkaïla, who now had the rank of lieutenant colonel , was appointed technical advisor to Defense Minister Mahamadou Karidio in 2011. That same year he was sent to the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . In 2012 he was appointed colonel . He then worked in the United Nations Operation in Ivory Coast . Most recently, Mounkaïla became director of the National Bureau for Veterans and Victims of War and Armed Conflict in 2015. Soon after, he retired.

Honors

• Officer of the Nigerien National Order

Individual evidence

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4. ↑ Niger: Comment Issoufou désarme les gradés. In: Tamtam Info. April 23, 2012, accessed July 26, 2017 (French). 
5. ↑ Le Chef de l'Etat signe trois décrets portant promotion et nomination aux grades supérieurs, d'Officiers des Forces Armées Nigériennes et de la Gendarmerie Nationale. In: Tamtam Info. January 23, 2012, accessed July 26, 2017 (French). 
6. ↑ La Représentante spéciale remet la médaille des Nations Unies à 150 casques bleus du 20e contingent. ONUCI, November 27, 2014, accessed July 26, 2017 (French). 
7. ↑ Communiqué du Conseil des Ministres du 10 juillet 2015. (No longer available online.) Présidence de la République du Niger, July 10, 2015, archived from the original on August 8, 2017 ; Retrieved July 26, 2017 (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.  
8. ↑ `` L'extrémisme violent '' thème d'une série de conférences à la Maison de la presse. Agence Nigérienne de Presse, January 23, 2017, accessed July 26, 2017 (French).