Illa Salifou

Illa Salifou presents his credentials to US President Gerald Ford (1974)

Illa Salifou (born February 27, 1932 in Madaoua ) is a Nigerien diplomat .

Life

Illa Salifou initially worked as a court clerk. He became a party member of the Nigerien Democratic Union founded in 1954 , from which the Sawaba party emerged in 1956 . When the Sawaba was banned in 1959, Salifou suspended its political engagement and embarked on a diplomatic career. He completed a diplomatic training at the Geneva University Institute for International Studies .

Assigned to the United States as a diplomat , Salifou was arrested in 1964 while on home leave in Niamey . He was held in a detention center with hundreds of other former Sawaba supporters for a week before being sent back to work in the United States. After the fall of the First Republic (1960–1974), Illa Salifou was Niger's ambassador to the United States in 1974 instead of Abdoulaye Diallo . In this position he was replaced in 1976 by André Joseph Wright .

Honors

Grand Cross of the Nigerian National Order (2012)

Web links

Commons : Illa Salifou - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Les élites africaines: Cameroun, RCA, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Dahomey, Gabon, Haute Volta, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Sénégal, Tchad, Togo . 2nd Edition. Ediafric-Service, Paris 1972, p. 189 .
^ Klaas van Walraven: The Yearning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , pp. 382 and 562 .
^ Klaas van Walraven: The Yearning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , pp. 686-687 .
^ Diplomatic Representation for Niger. United States Department of State, accessed June 16, 2017 .
↑ Au Conseil des ministres: le gouvernement adopte plusieurs projets de loi et des mesures nominatives. In: Niger Diaspora. January 23, 2012, accessed June 16, 2017 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Salifou, Illa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Nigerien diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	February 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Madaoua

[Elites-1] Les élites africaines: Cameroun, RCA, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Dahomey, Gabon, Haute Volta, Mali, Mauritanie, Niger, Sénégal, Tchad, Togo . 2nd Edition. Ediafric-Service, Paris 1972, p. 189 .

[2] Klaas van Walraven: The Yearning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , pp. 382 and 562 .

[3] Klaas van Walraven: The Yearning for Relief. A History of the Sawaba Movement in Niger . Brill, Leiden 2013, ISBN 978-90-04-24574-7 , pp. 686-687 .

[4] Diplomatic Representation for Niger. United States Department of State, accessed June 16, 2017 .

[5] Au Conseil des ministres: le gouvernement adopte plusieurs projets de loi et des mesures nominatives. In: Niger Diaspora. January 23, 2012, accessed June 16, 2017 (French).