Demba Maïnassara

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Demba Maïnassara (* 1910 in Damana ; † August 1, 1996 in Niamey ; also Damba Maïnassara ) was a Nigerien officer .

Life

Demba Maïnassara belonged to the Zarma subgroup Sudié. He served during the colonial rule of France in Niger for thirty years in the French armed forces . There he received the rank of captain in 1957 . When Niger gained independence in 1960, Demba Maïnassara was one of six officers who were accepted into the new Nigerien armed forces , alongside Bala Arabé , Amadou Diallo, Henri Dupuis-Yacouba , Seyni Kountché and Moussa Tondi . In 1961 he was promoted to major and named historically the first Chief of the General Staff of the Nigerien Armed Forces. As such he was, most recently with the rank of colonel , active during the First Republic (1960–1974) under President Hamani Diori and PPN-RDA party leader Boubou Hama . Maïnassara retired in 1969. His successor as Chief of the General Staff was Bala Arabé.

Maïnassara was married and had 16 children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Finn Fuglestad : Les Hauka. Une interprétation historique . In: Cahiers d'Études africaines . Volume 15, No. 58 , 1975, pp. 203 ( persee.fr [accessed May 15, 2017]).
  2. ↑ a b Curriculum vitae de feu colonel Damba Maïnassara . In: Béret vert. Bulletin de liaison des Forces armées nigériennes . 1996, p. 33 .
  3. ^ Aliou Mahamane: La naissance de l'armée nationale au Niger, 1961–1974 . In: Idrissa Kimba (ed.): Armée et politique au Niger . Codesria, Dakar 2008, ISBN 2-86978-216-0 , p. 62 .
  4. ↑ a b Les Chefs d'Etat-major des Armées de 1960 à 2015. (No longer available online.) Ministère de la Défense du Niger, archived from the original on September 17, 2017 ; Retrieved May 15, 2017 (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.defense.gouv.ne
  5. ↑ Zabeirou Moussa: Consécration et baptême de la 11ème promotion des élèves officiers d'active (EOA): La promotion Colonel Demba Mainassara sera parrainée par le général de brigade Hamadou Moussa Gros. (No longer available online.) In: Le Sahel . Archived from the original on February 10, 2017 ; Retrieved May 15, 2017 (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 / lesahel.org
personal data
SURNAME Maïnassara, Demba
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Maïnassara, Damba
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien officer
DATE OF BIRTH 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Damana
DATE OF DEATH August 1, 1996
Place of death Niamey