Mamane Oumarou

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Mamane Oumarou (* 1945 in Diffa ) is a Nigerien politician and diplomat. He was Prime Minister of his country in 1983 and from 1988 to 1989 .

Life

Mamane Oumarou belongs to the Kanuri ethnic group . He attended primary school in his native Diffa from 1952 to 1958 and the Lycée National in the capital Niamey from 1958 to 1963 . He then graduated from the École Nationale d'Administration in Niamey. Oumarou worked in the Zinder city ​​administration from 1967 to 1972 . He was named Deputy Prefect of the Department of Zinder in 1974, Sub-Prefect of the Department of Mirriah in 1975 and Mayor of Maradi in 1976 . He held this office until 1981. In the same year, the head of state Seyni Kountché appointed him Minister for Youth, Sports and Culture.

Seyni Kountché's regime decided to create the post of Prime Minister, to which Mamane Oumarou was appointed on January 24, 1983. On November 14, 1983, he rose to President of the National Development Council and thus to protocol number two in the state after Seyni Kountché. Hamid Algabid became Prime Minister in his place . Oumarou headed the National Development Council until September 10, 1987. During this time, he organized national discussions on the theme of the "Development Society", the then state doctrine of Niger. After Kountché's death, Oumarou was sent to Canada as ambassador , but just under a year later, on July 15, 1988, President Ali Saibou reappointed Prime Minister. At the founding congress of the National Development Society's unity party in May 1989, he also became a member of its national executive office. On December 20, 1989, the office of Prime Minister was abolished.

From 1990 to 1996, Oumarou worked as an accredited ambassador to Cairo in Egypt , Sudan and Turkey . In 1996 he moved to Riyadh as ambassador and was accredited as such in Saudi Arabia , the United Arab Emirates , Qatar , Bahrain , Yemen and Brunei . President Mamadou Tandja , a party colleague of Oumarou, appointed him in 2008 as Médiateur de la République , a kind of state ombudsman , which was considered a personal favor and supply post. Oumarou lost this post when Tandja was overthrown in 2010.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Abdourahmane Idrissa, Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th edition. Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 354 .
  2. ↑ 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. 258-259 .
  3. ^ Médiateur de la République: Attributions et fonctionnement. PlaneteAfrique.com, September 9, 2011, accessed October 18, 2013 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Oumarou, Mamane
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Diffa