Barcourgné Courmo

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Barcourgné Courmo (* 1916 in Say ; † November 16, 1993 in Niamey ) was a Nigerien politician. From 1958 to 1970 he was Niger's finance minister .

Life

Barcourgné Courmo belonged to the Songhai - Zarma ethnic group . He attended schools in Niamey and then went to the École normal William Ponty , which he graduated in 1936 with a diploma. He was a school and college colleague of Hamani Diori . From 1936 he worked as an accountant in the finance department of Niamey. In 1946 Courmo was a founding member of the Nigerien Progressive Party Hamani Dioris, whose vice-president he became a year later. In this office he was replaced in 1956 by the future Minister of the Interior, Yansambou Maïga Diamballa . In 1948 Barcourgné Courmo was transferred as an accountant to the finance department in Zinder , where he soon became office manager. From 1952 he worked again in the financial administration of Niamey and in March 1958 became assistant to the district commander of Madaoua .

On December 20, 1958, Barcourgné Courmo was appointed to the government of Hamani Diori to succeed Issa Diop as finance minister in his country, which gained independence from France in 1960 . From June 25, 1963 to November 23, 1965 he was also Minister of Economics, then again exclusively Minister of Finance. He then became Foreign Minister on January 15, 1970, succeeding Abdou Sidikou . In this office he was replaced on November 22, 1970 by Mamoudou Maïdah . A few months later he was elected President of the state Conseil économique et social.

On April 15, 1974, Hamani Diori was deposed by Seyni Kountché in a coup. Like most members of the previous political elite, Barcourgné Courmo was arrested and interned in a military camp in Agadez . He was only released when Ali Saïbou became president in 1987 . He retired in his native town of Say, where he was buried after his death.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mahamadou Danda : Politique de décentralisation, développement régional et identités locales au Niger: le cas du Damagaram . Dissertation. Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux, Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, Bordeaux 2004, p. 39 ( halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF; accessed September 12, 2016]).
  2. ^ André Salifou : Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , pp. 272-274.
personal data
SURNAME Courmo, Barcourgné
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Say
DATE OF DEATH November 16, 1993
Place of death Niamey