Mame Madior Boye

Mame Madior Boye (born December 7, 1940 in Saint-Louis ) is a Senegalese lawyer and politician . She was Prime Minister of Senegal from 2001 to 2002 .

Life

After completing her training, Mame Boye worked as a public prosecutor and judge. After the resignation of the previous Prime Minister Moustapha Niasse , President Abdoulaye Wade, who had been in power since 2000, appointed her as his successor and thus the first woman to be appointed to head the Council of Ministers in Senegal. She had previously been Minister of Justice since May 2000. She took office on March 3, 2001. The government was strengthened by the parliamentary elections on April 29, 2001. Like Abdoulaye Wade, it belongs to the Parti Démocratique Sénégalais (PDS) party. Her term of office ended with her dismissal by the president on November 4, 2002. He later justified this step with a lack of communication between the government and him. The immediate cause was the accident involving the Le Joola ferry off the coast of Gambia at the end of September. There had been over 1,800 deaths.

In September 2004 she appointed the African Union as special envoy for the protection of civilians in armed conflicts.

On September 12, 2008, the French judge Jean-Noël Wilfrid issued international arrest warrants against Mame Madior Boye and other senior Senegalese officials, including the ex-minister of the armed forces, the ex-minister of transport and senior military and naval officers, for alleged joint responsibility for the sinking of the ferry Le Joola .

Web links

afrol News about her dismissal, November 19, 2002 (English)

Individual evidence

^ Gouvernement du Senegal: List of the Prime Minister Ministres
^ Maroc Hebdo International on their appointment: Le Président Abdoulaye Wade nomme une femme à la primature. L'exception sénégalaise ( Memento from May 24, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
↑ French judge issues warrants over Senegal ferry disaster: lawyer ( Memento from September 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Sénégal / Joola: la justice française délivre neuf mandats d'arrêts internationaux ( Memento from September 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Boye, Mame Madior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Senegalese lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Saint-Louis

[1] Gouvernement du Senegal: List of the Prime Minister Ministres

[2] Maroc Hebdo International on their appointment: Le Président Abdoulaye Wade nomme une femme à la primature. L'exception sénégalaise ( Memento from May 24, 2002 in the Internet Archive )

[3] French judge issues warrants over Senegal ferry disaster: lawyer ( Memento from September 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Sénégal / Joola: la justice française délivre neuf mandats d'arrêts internationaux ( Memento from September 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )