Adamou Garba (environmental activist)

Adamou Garba (* 1954 ) is a Nigerien environmental activist and politician .

Life

Adamou Garba studied at the University of Lomé in Togo as well as at the University of Poitiers and the University of Paris in France . In 1988 he married Fati Ibrahim. Garba worked from 1993 to 1995 as director of communications in the Nigerien Ministry of Communications. In 1994 he founded Niger's first green party, the Alliance for a Green Sahel ( French : Rassemblement pour un Sahel Vert , abbreviation: RSV-Ni'ima ), which he has headed since then.

Garba protested against the fact that a Saudi prince, with the tolerance of the state authorities , was organizing illegal hunting in sensitive natural areas of Niger. The RSV-Ni'ima was then banned from any activity for three months under President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara at the end of 1996 . In the capital Niamey , Garba campaigned for the preservation of the urban green belt .

In 2008 he became a representative of the African green parties and movements at the global association Global Greens . In the presidential elections in Niger in 2011 , Garba's party supported election winner Mahamadou Issoufou from the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism , but left the coalition in 2015.

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Environment Encyclopedia and Directory . 3. Edition. Europa Publications, London 2001, ISBN 1-85743-089-1 , pp. 486 .
2. ↑ Emmanuel Grégoire: Les chasses du prince Bandar . In: Emmanuel Grégoire, Jean Schmitz (eds.): Afrique noire et monde arabe: continuités et ruptures . Éditions de l'Aube, La Tour-d'Aigues 2000, ISBN 2-87678-596-X , p. 87 and 92 .
3. ^ Interview by M. Adamou Garba, président du RSV-Ni'ima, le premier parti vert du Niger. In: Niger Inter. June 14, 2015, accessed July 17, 2017 (French). 
4. ^ About the African Green Party Movement. African Greens, accessed July 17, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Le RSV NI'IMA se désolidarise de la renaissance. (No longer available online.) In: Niger Focus. October 17, 2015, formerly in the original ; Retrieved on July 17, 2017 (French).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.