Mariama Gamatié Bayard

Mariama Gamatié Bayard (* 1958 in Maradi ) is a Nigerien politician and women's rights activist .

Life

Mariama Gamatié Bayard graduated from the Lycée Kassaï in Niamey with a baccalaureate in 1976 . She then studied economics and sociology at the University of Montpellier . In 1985 she received a doctorate in international relations from the Institut international des relations internationales du Cameroun . Bayard subsequently worked as a consultant on development and gender issues and founded the Nigerien women's organization Rassemblement Démocratique des Femmes Nigériennes (RDFN). She took part in the 1991 national conference that organized Niger's democratic transition after the military regime that had ruled since 1974, and chaired the Commission for Rural Development there.

On June 13, 1997, Bayard was appointed Minister for Communication and Culture and as a government spokeswoman in the government of Prime Minister Amadou Boubacar Cissé under President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara . She held this office until December 1, 1997. As a minister, she organized a festival for traditional music and dance in Zinder and prepared the liberalization of the telecommunications sector. After 2000 she worked for the United Nations : inter alia as Deputy Representative of the UN Secretary General in Guinea-Bissau (2004-2005), as head of the political department of UN activities in Ivory Coast (2005-2007), for the Integrated Office of the United Nations in Burundi (2007–2008) and for the PNUD center in Dakar (2008–2009). Most recently, Bayard worked for UNESCO in Paris , from where she returned to Niger in 2009. In October 2009, she was beaten to hospital during a demonstration against President Mamadou Tandja . In the presidential elections in Niger in 2011 after Tandja was overthrown, she ran as a candidate for the Alliance of Independent Candidates for a New Niger (RACINN-Hadin'Kay), but only achieved last place and 0.38 percent of the vote. She was the first woman to run for president.

Mariama Gamatié Bayard is married and has three children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Qui est Mme BAYARD? ( French ) website of the RACINN-Hadin'Kay. August 25, 2010. Accessed on January 24, 2013.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ Gouvernements du Président Ibrahim Maïnassara Barré ( French ) Website of the President of Niger. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , pp. 94-95.