Issa Ibrahim

Issa Ibrahim (* 1922 in Zinder ; † July 13, 1991 there ) was a Nigerien politician.

Life

Issa Ibrahim belonged to the Hausa ethnic group . He attended elementary school in his hometown of Zinder and trained as a paramedic. As such he then worked in Mirriah , Magaria and Maradi . He began to be politically active at an early age. The situation became life-threatening for him when he spoke out publicly against National Socialism in the early 1940s , since all of French West Africa was under the Vichy regime at that time . In 1946 Issa Ibrahim joined the Nigerien Progress Party . Not least because of his work for party propaganda, he continued to arouse the suspicion of the French colonial authorities and was temporarily imprisoned. In 1959 he was elected to the Nigerien Territorial Assembly and was Senator of the Communauté franco-africaine for the independent Republic of Niger (from 1960) .

On November 23, 1965, Issa Ibrahim was appointed health minister in the government of his party friend Hamani Diori . On January 15, 1970, he became Minister of Post and Telecommunications instead. Seyni Kountché deposed Hamani Diori in a coup on April 15, 1974. Issa Ibrahim, like most ministers, was arrested and imprisoned in a military camp in Agadez . In 1984 he was transferred to Zinder, where he was placed under house arrest. He was finally released after Seyni Kountché's death in November 1987. He died almost four years later.

Individual evidence

^ Mahamadou Danda : Politique de décentralisation, développement régional et identités locales au Niger: le cas du Damagaram . Dissertation. Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux, Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, Bordeaux 2004, p. 39 ( halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF; accessed September 12, 2016]).
^ André Salifou : Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , pp. 288-289.

personal data
SURNAME	Ibrahim, Issa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Nigerien politician
DATE OF BIRTH	1922
PLACE OF BIRTH	cinder
DATE OF DEATH	July 13, 1991
Place of death	cinder

[1] Mahamadou Danda : Politique de décentralisation, développement régional et identités locales au Niger: le cas du Damagaram . Dissertation. Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux, Université Montesquieu - Bordeaux IV, Bordeaux 2004, p. 39 ( halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF; accessed September 12, 2016]).

[2] André Salifou : Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , pp. 288-289.