Cheick Modibo Diarra

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Cheick Modibo Diarra

Cheick Modibo Diarra (* 1952 in Nioro du Sahel ) is a Malian astrophysicist , businessman and politician . He was Prime Minister of Mali from April 17, 2012 to December 11, 2012 .

Life

Diarra was born in western Mali near the border with Mauritania . He is the son-in-law of former Malian President Moussa Traoré . After completing his school education in Mali, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris and then aerospace engineering at Howard University in Washington, DC , where he earned his doctorate in 1987. He then worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology ("Caltech"), where he was involved in various NASA space projects. During this time he also acquired American citizenship. However, he did not forget his origins in Mali and, from 1999, he was temporarily released from his obligations at NASA in order to initiate development projects in Mali. In 2002 he founded a laboratory in Bamako for the use of solar energy in Mali. He was one of the organizers of the World Education Forum in Dakar ( World Education Forum , Forum mondial sur l'éducation ) in April 2000 and of the Africa Forum at the UNESCO meeting in November 2001. Since February 20, 2006, he was President of Microsoft Africa . He held this post until the end of 2011.

politics

Secession of the northern part of Mali under the name Azawad (as of April 2012)

On March 6, 2011, he founded the political party Rassemblement pour le développement du Mali (RPDM, "Movement for the Development of Mali") in Bamako , in order to be able to run as its top candidate in the presidential elections planned for 2012 in Mali.

After the outbreak of unrest and the secession of the northern part of Mali under the name Azawad , Diarra was appointed Prime Minister of a Malian interim government on April 17, 2012 by the military government in power since the coup in March 2012 . The government of national unity he had set up had as its first goal the restoration of state order in all parts of the country and the subsequent holding of free elections.

After being arrested by the military on December 10, 2012, Modibo Diarra made a statement on state television on the morning of December 11, declaring his resignation and the resignation of his entire cabinet .

Diarra took part in the 2013 presidential election in Mali as his party's RPDM candidate. He ended up in eighth place.

Web links

Commons : Cheick Modibo Diarra  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Les partis politiques au Mali. (No longer available online.) Afrique-express.com, February 2011, archived from the original on February 6, 2012 ; Retrieved May 17, 2012 (French).
  2. ↑ a b c Un cerveau de la NASA à la tête du gouvernement malien. Le Monde Afrique, April 19, 2012, accessed May 17, 2012 (French).
  3. ↑ Dr. Cheick Modibo Diarra. Microsoft Corporation, archived from the original on July 30, 2013 ; accessed on May 17, 2012 (English).
  4. ^ Thomas Scheen: Military coup against President Touré. faz.net, March 23, 2012, accessed May 17, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Mali's head of government resigns in: Handelsblatt of December 11, 2012
  6. ↑ Involuntary resignation in Mali Mali's Prime Minister Diarra arrested in: Frankfurter Rundschau online from December 11, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Diarra, Cheick Modibo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Malian astrophysicist, businessman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Nioro du Sahel