Amadou Boubacar Cissé

Amadou Boubacar Cissé (born June 29, 1948 in Niamey ; nickname: ABC ) is a Nigerien politician , civil engineer and bank manager . From 1982 Cissé worked as a transport expert for the World Bank . In 1995 and from 1996 to 1997 he was Prime Minister of Niger. From 2002 to 2008 he was Vice President of the Islamic Development Bank. From 2011 to 2015 he was planning minister in Niger.

Life

Amadou Boubacar Cissé comes from a Fulbe family from Say . His father Boubacar Cissé was a manager and politician of the Nigerien Progress Party (PPN-RDA). Amadou Boubacar Cissé attended the primary school Ecole Neuve and the Lycée National in Niamey, where he passed his baccalaureate . In France he first completed classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles for mathematics. He trained as a civil engineer in Paris and graduated in development economics from the Fondation nationale des sciences politiques in Paris . At the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, Cissé earned a doctorate in engineering with a dissertation on dam and dike construction . He was involved in the association of black African students in France and was a member of the office of the Nigerien student and pupil association Union des Scolaires Nigériens .

Cissé worked from 1975 to 1976 in France in the field of road construction and as a researcher at the Paris Central Laboratory for Bridge and Road Construction, where he wrote a study on the use of cement for laterite . In 1976 he went back to Niger, where he received the post of chief civil engineer in the departments of Maradi and Tahoua . In the following year, he took over the management of road construction across the country and, as chief engineer, was responsible for the work on the road from Tahoua to the recently established uranium city ​​of Arlit . From 1979 he was director of buildings in the Nigerien Ministry of Buildings, Transport and Urban Planning.

In 1982 the World Bank appointed Cissé its deputy representative in Niger. In 1983 he moved as an engineer to the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC , where he was responsible for transport projects in Benin , the Ivory Coast , Guinea-Bissau and Chad until 1986 . He also worked as an advisor to the Institute for Development Economics of the World Bank on issues of African transport policy. From 1986 he was chief engineer for transport in the Sahel countries department of the World Bank. Cissé rose to Chief Engineer at World Bank headquarters in 1989. He headed the transport programs co-financed by the World Bank in Sub-Saharan Africa and represented the World Bank in international bodies. In 1992 he was named chief executive of the World Bank's operations in central Africa . He also became a party member of the Nigerien National Development Society Movement (MNSD-Nassara).

In Niger, President Mahamane Ousmane of the Democratic and Social Assembly (CDS-Rahama) lost the parliamentary majority when the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya) left the ruling coalition. Ousmane was forced to appoint a representative of the opposition party MNSD-Nassara, which was the party with the largest number of votes in the National Assembly , as prime minister. He made an attempt to split the MNSD-Nassara and did not appoint Hama Amadou , the MNSD-Nassara preferred candidate, but on 7 February 1995 the outsider Amadou Boubacar Cissé as prime minister. The President's attempt failed. On February 10, 1995, Cissé was expelled from the MNSD-Nassara because he had received the appointment. On February 20, 1995, he was deposed as Prime Minister by a vote of no confidence in the National Assembly. His successor was Hama Amadou. Cissé then returned to the World Bank in Washington, DC.

Under President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , who had deposed Mahamane Ousmane and Hama Amadou in a military coup , Amadou Boubacar Cissé was brought back into the Nigerien government on 23 August 1996 as Minister of State for Economy, Finance and Planning. On December 21, 1996, the President reappointed him Prime Minister. At the founding congress of Baré Maïnassara's new party Alliance for Democracy and Progress (RDP-Jama'a) in August 1997, Cissé was elected deputy party leader. As Prime Minister, Cissé reached an agreement between the Nigerien government and his former employer, the World Bank, in March 1997, which included massive budget cuts in the public sector. This led to resistance from the trade unions and protracted strikes that paralyzed government work. On November 24, 1997, President Cissé deposed his government.

From 1998 onwards, Cissé worked for the World Bank in Washington, DC again. President Baré Maïnassara was killed in a coup in April 1999. Amadou Boubacar Cissé announced that he wanted to run for the RDP-Jama'a in the 1999 presidential elections in Niger , of which he was still deputy party chairman. He stood against the party leader Hamid Algabid , who had the same ambitions. A court ruled in favor of algabids. Cissé was expelled from the RDP-Jama'a. He then founded a new party on September 10, 1999, the Union for Democracy and Republic (UDR-Tabbat) with himself as the party chairman. In the presidential elections he supported Mahamadou Issoufou , the unsuccessful candidate for the PNDS-Tarayya. Cissé took part in the parliamentary elections in Niger in 1999 in the constituency of Tillabéri , but the UDR-Tabbat failed to make it into the National Assembly.

Amadou Boubacar Cissé then temporarily turned his back on Nigerien politics and from the end of 1999 worked again for the World Bank in Washington, DC. On October 23, 2001 he was elected Vice President of the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah . He held this position from 2002 until he retired in 2008. Cissé returned to Niger, reactivated his UDR-Tabbat party and joined the opponents of President Mamadou Tandja (MNSD-Nassara). After Tandja's fall, he ran for the UDR Tabbat in the 2011 presidential elections in Niger . He finished eighth with 1.61% of the vote in the first round of voting. In the runoff election he again supported Mahamadou Issoufou (PNDS-Tarayya), who won this time.

In 2011, President Issoufou appointed Cissé Minister of State for Planning, Spatial Planning and Community Development. In the course of a government reshuffle in August 2013, Cissé lost the departments of spatial planning and community development and was now Minister of State for Planning. He held this office until September 2015. Cissé again entered the race for the UDR Tabbat in the 2016 presidential election and was ninth of fifteen candidates with 1.35% of the vote.

Cissé is married and has five children.

Honors

• Knight of the Chadian National Order

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 123-124 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Chaïbou Maman: Répertoire biographique des personnalités de la classe politique et des leaders d'opinion du Niger de 1945 à nos jours . Volume II. Démocratie 2000, Niamey 2003, p. 241-243 .
3. ^ Niger: List du nouveau gouvernement après le remaniement. In: tamtaminfo.com. August 13, 2013, archived from the original on October 31, 2013 ; accessed on February 14, 2015 (French). 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Portrait: M. Amadou Boubacar Cissé, candidat de l'UDR Tabbat. (No longer available online.) In: Niger Diaspora. February 5, 2016, archived from the original on February 14, 2016 ; Retrieved February 13, 2016 (French). 
5. ↑ Résultats globaux provisoires ( Memento from February 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )