Hamid algabid

Hamid Algabid (born January 1, 1941 in Belbédji ) is a Nigerien politician. He was Prime Minister of his country from 1983 to 1988 and General Secretary of the Organization of the Islamic Conference from 1988 to 1996 .

Life

Hamid Algabid belongs to the Tuareg ethnic group . He attended primary school in Tanout and the Lycée classique et modern in Niamey . He then obtained a license in public law from the University of Abidjan and graduated in 1970 from the Institut International d'Administration Publique in Paris . In the same year he joined the Nigerien Ministry of Finance as a department head, where he was promoted to general secretary in 1972. In 1976 he moved to the Islamic Development Bank as a manager , where he worked until 1979.

Algabid served in various functions in the Nigerien government from 1979 to 1988. On September 10, 1979, he became State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. He was Minister of Commerce from February 9, 1981 and Minister of Commerce and Transport from June 14, 1982. On January 24, 1983, he became Assistant Minister for Finance. Head of State Seyni Kountché appointed him on November 14, 1983 to succeed Mamane Oumarou as Prime Minister. He held this office until July 15, 1988. Due to the cancer of the head of state Kountché, to which he succumbed on November 10, 1987, Algabid received on July 6, 1987 the power to sign all ordinances, decrees and other legal acts reserved for the head of state. Hamid Algabid was elected General Secretary of the Organization of the Islamic Conference on March 24, 1988 in Amman . Until he took office on December 30, 1988, he held the rank of Minister of State in Niger from July 15, 1988. In the same year he published his doctoral thesis in law at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne . In 1992, he was elected Secretary General of the Islamic Conference for a second term, which lasted until December 31, 1996. He ran in 1996 for the office of Secretary General of the United Nations , to which Kofi Annan was elected.

Algabid then became a board member of the mining company Compagnie Minière d'Akouta (COMINAK) in 1997 . He joined the supporters of President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , who came to power in a 1996 coup. Algabid was elected in August 1997 at the founding congress of Baré Maïnassara's Alliance for Democracy and Progress (RDP-Jama'a) as its party leader. After Baré Maïnassara's violent death in 1999, a power struggle broke out over the party leadership, in which Hamid Algabid was able to prevail against Amadou Boubacar Cissé . He ran for the RDP-Jama'a in the presidential election in Niger in 1999 and reached fourth place. After his election as a member of the National Assembly in the parliamentary elections in Niger in 1999 , he retired from COMINAK. He became chairman of the parliamentary group of the RDP-Jama'a and a member of the parliamentary committee for finance. In 2001 he was re-elected as party chairman of the RDP-Jama'a, also elected deputy chairman of the RDP-Jama'a parliamentary group and fourth vice-president of the Office of the National Assembly. Algabid also ran in the 2004 presidential elections in Niger , but served as a special mediator for the African Union in the Darfur conflict during the election campaign and only came in sixth and last. In the runoff election he supported the victorious candidate Mamadou Tandja ( MNSD-Nassara ). Algabid, who was re-elected to the National Assembly in the parliamentary elections in Niger in 2004 , received the post of President of the Haut Conseil des Collectivités Territoriales , who was responsible for decentralization measures in Niger , as a reward for his support . When President Tandja wanted to secure a third term in office through the controversial constitutional referendum in Niger in 2009 , the West African Economic Community (ECOWAS) suspended Niger's membership. Hamid Algabid was sent to the ECOWAS headquarters in Abuja as one of several pro-tandja negotiators . In 2010, Tandja was deposed by a coup. In the presidential elections in Niger 2011 , Algabids RDP-Jama'a renounced their own candidate and supported the election winner Mahamadou Issoufou ( PNDS-Tarayya ). Algabid has not been a member of the National Assembly since the parliamentary elections in Niger in 2011 , but remained party leader of the RDP-Jama'a.

Fonts

• Les Banques islamiques, générale problems and perspectives de development . Dissertation. Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 1988.
• Le rôle de la zakat dans la lutte against la pauvreté . Nouvelle Imprimerie du Niger, Niamey 2003.

Honors

• Commander of the Nigerien National Order (1989)
• Grand Officer of the Nigerien Order of Merit (2000)

Individual evidence

1. ^ André Salifou: La question touarègue au Niger . Karthala, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-86537-434-3 , pp. 85 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Chaïbou Maman: Répertoire biographique des personnalités de la classe politique et des leaders d'opinion du Niger de 1945 à nos jours . Volume II. Démocratie 2000, Niamey 2003, p. 247-250 .
3. ^ ^{A b} Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 45-46 .
4. ^ List of the députés de la 1ère législature de la 7ème république. Assemblée nationale du Niger, accessed October 19, 2013 (French). 
5. ↑ Abandé Moctar: 16ème anniversaire du Rassemblement pour la démocratie et le progrès (RDP-JAMA'A): le parti réaffirme sa détermination à concrétiser les idéaux du Président Baré. In: aNiamey.com. Weblogy Group Ltd., April 9, 2013, accessed October 19, 2013 (French).