Alioune Badara Mbengue

Alioune Badara Mbengue (born February 1, 1924 in Fatick , † November 12, 1992 in Paris ) was a Senegalese politician , minister and ambassador . Among other things, he briefly held the office of Foreign Minister in 1968 .

Life

Alioune Badara Mbengue, son of Ndiaga Mbengue and his wife Seynabou Thiombane, attended primary school in Fatick and then the École primaire supérieure (EPS) in Dakar . After studying at the École normal William Ponty , the teacher training institute of French West Africa , he became a teacher at the primary school Ndioloffène in Saint-Louis on October 4, 1946 and on November 24, 1948 teacher at the École des champs de courses in Dakar. In 1948 he joined the Bloc démocratique sénégalais (BDS) of Léopold Sédar Senghor , Mamadou Dia , Ibrahima Seydou Ndaw and Amadou Cissé Dia and became a member of the organizing committee at the first party congress in Thiès in 1949 and at the party congress in M'bour together with Aynina in 1950 Case elected deputy general secretary of the BDS. In addition, he was editor-in-chief of Condition Humaine magazine , organ of the BDS, between 1950 and 1956 . On November 1, 1951, he left the school service and instead became head of the general administrative office of the Institut Français d'Afrique Noire (IFAN). He also served as First Vice Mayor of Rufisque from 1955 to 1960 and as Editor-in-Chief of L'Unité , Organ des Bloc Populaire Sénégalais (BPS) between 1956 and 1957 .

Then Alioune Badara Mbengue was from 1957 to 1959 member of the Territorial Council of Senegal and in 1957 took over the office of Minister for Labor and Social Affairs in the government of the autonomous Republic of Senegal under the President of the Government Council Mamadou Dia . He was also a member of the Legislative Assembly from 1959 to 1960. In the government of Mamadou Dia, who had been Prime Minister of Senegal since May 18, 1960 , he served as Minister for Public Works, Transport and Mining until 1962 and briefly as Minister for Trade, Industry and Tourism in 1962. After the office of Prime Minister was abolished on December 18, 1962, he was Minister for Public Works, Housing and Urban Planning in the government of President Léopold Sédar Senghor from 1962 to 1963 . He then served as Minister of Justice and Seal Keeper between 1963 and 1968 and also became a member of the Dakar City Council in 1964.

Mbengue took over the post of Foreign Minister from Doudou Thiam in June 1968 , but was replaced a few days later by Amadou Karim Gaye . He was then a member and vice-president of the National Assembly between 1968 and 1970 . After he was Ambassador to the United Kingdom from 1970 and 1974 , he took over the offices of Minister of State, Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seal in the cabinet of Prime Minister Abdou Diouf in 1974 and also held this position in the cabinet of Prime Minister Habib Thiam from January 1, 1981 to 1982 . From 1982 to 1983 he was again a member and vice-president of the National Assembly and then served from 1983 until his death on November 12, 1992 as President of the Board of Directors of the National Electricity Company of Senegal Senelec (Société nationale d'électricité du Sénégal) . For his many years of service, he received the Grand Cross of the Ordre national du Lion and was also commander of the Ordre Français d 'Outre-mer .

Web links

• Biography on the website of the National Assembly
• Entry in rulers.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Senegal: Foreign Ministers (rulers.org)