Amadou Karim Gaye
Amadou Karim Gaye (born November 8, 1913 in Saint-Louis , Senegal , † October 2, 2000 ) was a Senegalese politician .
biography
Amadou Karim Gaye, a Muslim from the people of the Wolof , studied after attending the primary school and the Lycée of Saint-Louis from 1935 to 1940 medicine at the University of Paris and graduated Laureate of the Medical Faculty at. From 1941 to 1945 he studied at the National Veterinary School (École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort) and graduated with a diploma from the Institute of Exotic Veterinary Medicine . After receiving his doctorate in veterinary medicine ( Dr. med. Vet. ), He joined the cavalry of theFrench armed forces and was promoted to captain of the reserve after completing the cavalry school (Ecole de Cavalerie) in Saumur in 1948 .
After his return to Senegal, he worked from 1949 to 1957 in the veterinary service as director of the cattle breeding administration . From 1949 to 1952 he was also General Councilor of Senegal.
In January 1959, Gaye was appointed Minister of National Education and Culture in the government of Mamadou Dia .
After Senegal gained sovereignty from France on August 20, 1960, he was appointed Minister for Planning, Development and Technical Cooperation in the Cabinet of Prime Minister Dia. As part of a government reshuffle, he first became Minister for Assistance and Technical Cooperation in 1961 and briefly Minister for Community Service and Labor in 1962.
After the abolition of the office of Prime Minister, he was first Minister for Rural Economy in the government of President Léopold Sédar Senghor between 1962 and 1965 . After a government reshuffle, he became Minister for the Armed Forces in 1965 and Foreign Minister in June 1968 . He held this post after the re-establishment of the office of Prime Minister on February 26, 1970 in Abdou Diouf's cabinet until June 1972.
In 1975 he finally succeeded Hassan al-Touhami as Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). In this capacity, he was on December 23, 1976 co-signer of the Tripoli Treaty between the Philippines and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF), which provided for the establishment of an autonomous region for the Moro people in the Philippines. In 1980 he resigned this office to Habib Chatty .
His son Babacar Gaye is Lieutenant General and since 2005 has commanded the troops of the Mission de l'Organisation des Nations Unies en République Démocratique du Congo (MONUC).
literature
- Amadou Karim Gaye , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 16/1973 of April 9, 1973, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Homepage of the OIC ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ The Tripoli Agreement
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gaye, Amadou Karim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Senegalese politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1913 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Saint-Louis , Senegal |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 2, 2000 |