Daouda Diallo

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Daouda Diallo (* 1939 in Dosso ; † June 28, 2014 in Niamey ) was a Nigerien politician . He was Niger's Foreign Minister from 1979 to 1983 .

Life

Daouda Diallo attended elementary schools in Dori , Say and Niamey. From 1968 to 1972 he did radio training at the Office de Coopération Radiophonique (OCORA) in Paris . The OCORA supported broadcasters in former French colonies such as Niger. On April 15, 1974, the Supreme Military Council under the leadership of Seyni Kountché came to power in a military coup in Niger. The civilian Daouda Diallo was initially appointed to the head of the association des amis du Niger (Association of Friends of Niger), which was based at the Nigerian embassy in Paris. At the end of 1974 he returned to Niger and was entrusted with the management of ORTN , Niger's state broadcaster.

Diallo became a member of the Kountché government in 1976, initially as State Secretary for Information. In 1979 he became Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation instead. In this office he succeeded Adamou Moumouni Djermakoye . Diallo acted as information minister from 1983. Idé Oumarou became the new foreign minister . From 1985 Diallo served as Minister for Information, Culture, Post and Telecommunications. In 1987 his official title was Minister for Culture and Communication for a short time until he left the government that same year after Seyni Kountché's death. Daouda Diallo was considered a close and influential confidante of the head of state. Under Kountché's successor Ali Saïbou , he was chairman of the board of directors of the state mining institution Office National des Ressources Minières , the predecessor company of the Société du Patrimoine des Mines du Niger, from 1987 to 1989 .

In 1997 , President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , who came to power in a military coup , appointed Diallo President of the State Conseil Supérieur de la Communication (High Council for Communication). In this role, Diallo was responsible for restricting press freedom . He banned private radio stations from broadcasting foreign programs in their news programs and announced that they would cease operating newspapers whose publishers were not licensed as professional journalists. The non-state newspapers Citoyen and La Tribune du Peuple were fined and their editors were sentenced to suspended sentences for defamation in the first instance. With the violent death of Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in 1999, Diallo's presidency of the Conseil Supérieur de la Communication ended .

The 1999 democratically elected President Mamadou Tandja , former member of the Supreme Military Council under Seyni Kountché, appointed Daouda Diallo as his advisor on information matters in 2003. In 2005, President Diallo reappointed the head of the Conseil Supérieur de la Communication . In 2009, Tandja tried to get a third term as president, which is not provided for in the constitution. In the course of this, he declared a state of emergency and provided Diallo with extensive powers to regulate the media, who could now act without the consent of the other members of the Conseil Supérieur de la Communication . After a program critical of the regime, Diallo had the private media group Dounia shut down. The closure was lifted by a court. In 2010 Tandja was overthrown and Diallo again lost his post as President of the Conseil Supérieur de la Communication .

Daouda Diallo died in 2014 and was buried in the family tomb in Lamordé .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Seini Seydou Zakaria: Homage posthume à M. Daouda Diallo, ancien président du Conseil Supérieur de la Communication (CSC): Le Niger perd une figure emblématique du journalisme. In: Le Sahel . 2014, accessed on September 11, 2016 (French).
  2. ↑ Historique ORTN. (No longer available online.) ORTN, February 27, 2011, archived from the original on September 27, 2017 ; Retrieved September 11, 2016 (French). 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ortn.ne
  3. ^ Gouvernements du President Seyni Kountché. Presidential Office of the Republic of Niger, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved September 11, 2016 (French).
  4. ^ Abdoulaye Niandou Souley : L'armée et le pouvoir . In: Claude Raynaut (Ed.): Le Niger. Chroniques d'un État (=  Politique Africaine . No. 38 ). Karthala, 1990, ISSN  0244-7827 , pp. 44 ( politique-africaine.com [PDF; accessed September 11, 2016]).
  5. ↑ Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 348 .
  6. ↑ Niger: Worsening of press freedom situation in Niger. In: AllAfrica. October 29, 1998, accessed on September 11, 2016 (English, full text display only with access to the database).
  7. ↑ Media outlets go on strike over press freedom restrictions. International Freedom of Expression Exchange , July 22, 2009, accessed September 11, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Diallo, Daouda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dosso
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2014
Place of death Niamey