Brigi Rafini

Brigi Rafini (2014)

Brigi Rafini (born April 7, 1953 in Iférouane ) is a Nigerien politician. He has been the country's prime minister since 2011 .

Life

Brigi Rafini, who belongs to the Tuareg ethnic group, attended the middle school in Agadez . From 1971 to 1974 and from 1978 to 1981 he studied at the École nationale d'administration in Paris . Rafini began his career in political administration as an office manager in the Nigerien Ministry of Public Service and Labor. Subsequently, he worked as head of cabinet of the prefecture of the Niamey department , secretary general of the prefecture of the department of Diffa , sub-prefect of the arrondissement Dosso and sub-prefect of the arrondissement Keita .

In 1987 Brigi Rafini became State Secretary - first for internal affairs, then in the same year for agriculture and the environment - in the government of Prime Minister Hamid Algabid under President Ali Saïbou . In July 1988, Rafini got the post of Minister of Agriculture. From December 1989 to August 1991 he was President of the National Development Council. This consultative assembly was created under the authoritarian ruling President Saïbou. Rafini was initially a party member of the MNSD-Nassara and now switched to ANDP-Zaman Lahiya . He was then Administrative Director at the Prefecture of the Department of Agadez and Secretary General and First Council ( conseiller principal ) of the National Assembly in Niamey . From 1994 to 1995 he stayed in France again. After the coup d'état by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in January 1996, Rafini, now a member of the RDP-Jama'a , took on various functions in transitional bodies. In 2004 he was elected mayor of his home parish Iférouane and a member of the National Assembly. Until 2009 he was fourth vice-president of the national assembly and president of the national group of the parliamentary union of the organization of the Islamic conference .

After the presidential elections in Niger in 2011 , in which Rafini now appeared as a member of the victorious PNDS-Tarayya , the new President Mahamadou Issoufou appointed him Prime Minister on April 7, 2011.

Web links

Commons : Brigi Rafini - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Oumarou Moussa: Le Premier ministre, M Brigi Rafini: un homme d'une grande expérience politique à la tête du gouvernement ( Memento of March 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Le Sahel website, published April 11, 2011, accessed April 27, 2012.
^ Brigi Rafini, un ancien administrateur civil nommé Prime ministre du Niger . Afrique Avenir website, published April 7, 2011, accessed April 27, 2012.

personal data
SURNAME	Rafini, Brigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Nigerien politician
DATE OF BIRTH	April 7, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH	Iférouane

[Le_Sahel-1] Oumarou Moussa: Le Premier ministre, M Brigi Rafini: un homme d'une grande expérience politique à la tête du gouvernement ( Memento of March 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Le Sahel website, published April 11, 2011, accessed April 27, 2012.

[2] Brigi Rafini, un ancien administrateur civil nommé Prime ministre du Niger . Afrique Avenir website, published April 7, 2011, accessed April 27, 2012.