Amadou Hassane

Amadou Hassane (* 1931 in Garankédey ) is a Nigerien politician and trade unionist.

Life

Amadou Hassane initially worked as a nurse in the Niamey hospital , interrupted by a radiology training that he did in Dakar from 1952 to 1953 . In 1957 he ran for the Nigerien Progressive Party and was elected as a member of the Dosso District in the Territorial Assembly, the predecessor of the National Assembly , of which he was a member until 1974. From 1965 he was its second vice-president and from 1970 its first vice-president. Hassane's international commitments included ten years of membership in the Nigerien delegation to the General Assembly of the United Nations. As a trade unionist, he was a member of the offices of the Nigerien Nurses Union and Deputy Secretary General of the Nigerien national section of the Confédération générale des travailleurs africains .

After the coup d'état by Seyni Kountché in 1974, Amadou Hassane, like most of the country's political elite, was arrested and interned in a military camp in Agadez . In April 1985 he was released and in 1991 elected vice-president of the Nigerien Progress Party.

Honors

Commander of the Nigerien National Order (2012)

Commander of the Nigerien Order of Merit

Officer of the Legion of Honor

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b André Salifou: Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , p. 315.
^ Cérémonie de prize d'armes, suivie de décoration des anciens députés de la première législature du Niger, à l'occasion de la Fête de la République. Le Sahel , December 19, 2012, accessed July 5, 2013 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Hassane, Amadou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Nigerien politician and trade unionist
DATE OF BIRTH	1931
PLACE OF BIRTH	Garankédey

[Salifou_325-1] A ^b André Salifou: Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , p. 315.

[2] Cérémonie de prize d'armes, suivie de décoration des anciens députés de la première législature du Niger, à l'occasion de la Fête de la République. Le Sahel , December 19, 2012, accessed July 5, 2013 (French).