Mamadou Diallo Sory

Mamadou Diallo Sory (born December 27, 1927 in Maïné-Soroa , † January 19, 1996 in Niamey ) was a Nigerien officer , politician and diplomat .

Life

Mamadou Diallo Sory attended the primary school in Maïné-Soroa and the regional school in Zinder . In 1947 he joined the French armed forces as a tirailleur sénégalais . He served in Niger, Metropolitan France, and Algeria, and rose to the rank of aide in 1958 . Sory joined the Nigerien Armed Forces when they were founded in 1961. There he became commander of Defense Zone No. 2 in Agadez in 1972 , from 1973 onwards with the rank of major .

Sory was among the officers who at one on April 15, 1974 military coup the Nigerien President Hamani Diori collapsed and until December 1989 as Supreme Military Council under Seyni Kountché the military junta formed in the country. Sory held various ministerial posts until 1981. He was Minister of Justice from April 22, 1974 , Minister of Justice, Post and Telecommunications from November 30, 1974, Minister of Public Service and Labor from June 3, 1975, Minister of Public Service, Labor, Post and Labor from February 21, 1976 Telecommunications, Minister of the Interior from June 7, 1976 , and finally Minister of Post and Telecommunications from September 10, 1979 to February 9, 1981. With the Nigerien Armed Forces he received the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1979 . From March 18, 1981 to October 26, 1987, Sory was Niger's ambassador to Egypt . He retired from the armed forces in 1987, but remained a member of the Supreme Military Council until its dissolution in December 1989.

Honors

Grand Cross of the Nigerien National Order (1987)

Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1969)

Knight of the Legion of Honor (1972)

Knight of the French National Order of Merit (1967)

Knight of the Mauritanian Order of Merit (1969)

Winner of the French Military Merit Cross with a Gold Star (1956)

French military medal holder (1971)

Individual evidence

↑ Chaïbou Maman: Répertoire biographique des personnalités de la classe politique et des leaders d'opinion du Niger de 1945 à nos jours . Volume II. Démocratie 2000, Niamey 2003, p. 346-347 .

personal data
SURNAME	Sory, Mamadou Diallo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Nigerien officer, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	December 27, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH	Maïné-Soroa
DATE OF DEATH	January 19, 1996
Place of death	Niamey

[1] Chaïbou Maman: Répertoire biographique des personnalités de la classe politique et des leaders d'opinion du Niger de 1945 à nos jours . Volume II. Démocratie 2000, Niamey 2003, p. 346-347 .