Mamadou Dagra

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Mamadou Dagra (* 1953 in Kaoutchiloum , Gouré ) is a Nigerien right scientists and politician .

Life

Mamadou Dagra belongs to the Kanuri ethnic group , whose main settlement area is in Niger in the east of the country. Dagra attended elementary school in Kellé and then from 1965 to 1972 the Lycée national de Niamey in the capital Niamey . He then studied law in several stages (1972–1976, 1978–1980, 1986–1987) at the University of Dakar . As part of his studies, he obtained the degrees of License ès lettres and Doctorat d'Etat in public law .

Dagra worked from 1976 from 1977 as head of the Europe department in the Nigerien Foreign Ministry in Niamey. He then worked as Counselor at the Permanent Mission of Niger to the United Nations in New York until 1978 . From 1980 he worked at the economics and law faculty of Niamey University , initially as an assistant, from 1981 to 1985 as dean of the faculty and in 1987 as maître-assistant . From 1984 to 1989 he was also the director of the École Nationale d'Administration , the state administration school in Niamey. Mamadou Dagra was one of the theorists of the “development society”, the social model of the 1974 to 1989 regime of the Supreme Military Council , and accordingly argued against a liberal multi-party system in favor of a participatory democracy that was to be created . He coined the term régime d'exception ("exceptional regime") for those years of military rule in Niger that were not based on a constitution .

Mamadou Dagra was first entrusted with political offices during the Second Republic under President Ali Saïbou of the then unity party, the National Development Movement . He was head of the cabinet of Prime Minister Mamane Oumarou from 1989 until he was appointed Minister of Education in the government at the end of 1989. He changed portfolios in 1990 and became Minister for Public Service, Labor and Education. Dagra lost this ministerial office in 1991 and returned to university teaching and administration in Niamey with the establishment of a multi-party system in Niger. He established himself as the country's leading legal expert after Abdourahamane Soli . He published writings on the subject of diplomacy in particular and tried, with foreign support, for example from the Danish Institute for Human Rights , to revitalize legal journals in Niger. In 1996 he was a special advisor in the cabinet of Prime Minister Amadou Boubacar Cissé .

President Mamadou Tandja brought Mamadou Dagra back into government in 2007 during the Fifth Republic. Dagra served as Minister of Justice for two years . He took over the chairmanship of the Council of Ministers of the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Law in Africa . Domestically, he advocated tightening anti-terrorism legislation in view of the threat posed by the Nigerien Movement for Justice . He also supported an awareness campaign aimed at providing birth certificates to one million children, particularly in rural areas . In 2009, Dagra became Minister of Vocational and Technical Training instead of Minister of Justice. He was one of the supporters of President Tandja when he established the Sixth Republic by means of the controversial constitutional referendum of 2009 and thus wanted to secure a third term of office as President that was not provided for in the Constitution of the Fifth Republic. Mamadou Dagra was Vice President of the five-member body that drafted the Constitution of the Sixth Republic. He and Tandja were united by their common ethnic and regional origins. The president and his government were overthrown in 2010. Dagra then returned to the university. He also headed the African Union election observer mission for the 2011 parliamentary elections in Chad .

Fonts

  • La Démocratie participative au Niger: allier l'idéal au fonctionnel . In: Bulletin du Comité National de Développement . No. September 16 , 1985, pp. 12-16 .
  • La politique extérieure du Niger (1974–1987). Contribution à l'étude des structures diplomatiques et de la politique africaine d'un Etat sahélien . Thèse pour le Doctorat d'Etat. Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar 1987 ( sist.sn [PDF]).
  • Le Code Electoral Nigérien du 16 avril 1996: Facteur de Renouveau Démocratique et de Stabilité? In: Revue Nigérienne de Droit . No. 1 , March 1999, p. 15-51 .
  • L'Etat et la coopération internationale. De quelques aspects de la coopération bilatérale du Niger . In: Idrissa Kimba (ed.): Le Niger. État et démocratie . L'Harmattan, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-7475-0303-8 , pp. 173-224 .
  • Justice constitutionnelle et processus de démocratisation en Afrique de l'Ouest francophone: rapport national Niger = Judicial review and democratization in francophone West Africa (=  Franz von Liszt Institute working paper . No. 6 ). Franz von Liszt Institute for International and Comparative Law, Gießen October 2014 ( intlaw-giessen.de [PDF]).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 158 .
  2. ↑ a b Election de membres de la commission de conciliation et de bons offices chargée de rechercher la solution des différends qui naîtraient entre états parties à la convention concernant la lutte contre la discrimination dans le domaine de l'enseignement . Conference générale, Vingt-sixième session, Comité des candidatures, Point 12.5 de l'ordre du jour provisoire. Annexe III. UNESCO, October 19, 1991, p. 6 ( unesdoc.unesco.org [PDF; accessed September 17, 2018]).
  3. ^ Benedetta Rossi: From Slavery to Aid. Politics, Labor, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800-2000 . Cambridge University Press, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-11905-5 , pp. 243 .
  4. ↑ Aboubacar Maidoka: Esquisse d'une typologie des régimes militaires nigériens . In: Idrissa Kimba (ed.): Armée et politique au Niger . Codesria, Dakar 2008, ISBN 2-86978-216-0 , p. 220 .
  5. ^ Governments of the President Ali Chaibou. Présidence de la République du Niger, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved September 17, 2018 (French).
  6. ↑ a b Le gouvernement nigérien. In: IZF.net. Retrieved September 17, 2018 (French).
  7. ↑ Compte rendu de la réunion spéciale du Conseil des ministres de l'OHADA, Niamey - Niger, 26 to 27 June 2007 . In: Journal Official de l'Organisation pour l'Harmonisation en Afrique du Droit des Affaires . No. 19 , October 1, 2009, p. 4 ( ohada.org [PDF; accessed September 17, 2018]).
  8. ^ Abdoulaye Massalatchi: Niger adopts anti-terror law. Reuters, April 20, 2008, accessed September 17, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Niger: a national campaign to provide one million children with birth certificates. UNICEF, May 15, 2009, accessed September 17, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Le président Tandja crée un Comité de rédaction d'une nouvelle Constitution. RFI, June 2, 2009, accessed September 17, 2018 (French).
  11. ^ Mission d'observation de l'Union Africaine pour les élections législatives du 13 février 2011 en République du Tchad. The African Union Commission, February 10, 2011, accessed September 17, 2018 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Dagra, Mamadou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerian lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaoutchiloum , Gouré