Mouddour Zakara

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Mouddour Zakara (* 1912 in Imanan ; † May 10, 1976 in Niamey ) was a Nigerien politician.

Life

Mouddour Zakara belonged to the Tuareg ethnic group . He attended elementary school in Niamey and trained in administration, finance and accounting. He then worked from 1932 in Niamey and from 1938 in Tahoua as a simple clerk in the state financial administration. From 1940 to 1947 he worked as a Tamascheq translator for the colonial administration in Tahoua.

In 1952 Mouddour Zakara was appointed head of the canton of Imanan, which was mainly inhabited by settled Tuaregs. He held this office alongside his other political activities until 1974. Mouddour Zakara was also the amenokal of the Ouilliminden Kel Dinnik. In this way, he participated in forms of rule from the pre-colonial period, in whose traditions such as the Cure Salée he played a leading role. In the parliamentary elections of 1957 he won the election to the Nigerien Territorial Assembly in Tahoua County . He joined the anti-French party sawaba of Djibo Bakary on. Then he changed sides and joined the pro-French Nigerien Progress Party (PPN-RDA) of Djibo Bakary's competitor Hamani Diori . At the constitutional referendum of 1958 , Mouddour Zakara was, alongside Boubacar Diallo and Samna Maïzoumbou, one of the traditional local rulers who were most committed to keeping Niger in France. In the parliamentary elections of 1958 he was again a member of the PPN-RDA.

From December 20, 1958 Mouddour Zakara belonged to the government of Hamani Diori, which he had formed as head of government. Mouddour Zakara was initially minister for the public service for two weeks and then moved to Yansambou Maïga Diamballa in the interior ministry as state secretary . On December 31, 1960, in the now independent Niger, Mouddour Zakara was appointed Minister for Affairs of the Sahara and the Nomads. The official seat of this ministry was not in the capital Niamey, but in the desert city of Agadez . In fact, the minister continued to operate from Niamey and provided the Tuareg elite in Azawad with material benefits. From June 15, 1963 to January 15, 1970, he was also Minister of Post and Telecommunications, and from January 15, 1970, Minister of Finance .

On April 15, 1974, Seyni Kountché launched a coup against Hamani Diori. Mouddour Zakara was arrested, like most ministers under Hamani Diori, and interned in the garrison of N'Guigmi . He was convicted of embezzling 55 million CFA francs and tax evasion of 19 million CFA francs. Mouddour Zakara died two years later after surgery in a Niamey hospital.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c d e f André Salifou: Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , pp. 278-281.
  2. ↑ a b c Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , p. 473.
  3. ↑ Claude Fluchard: Le PPN-RDA et la décolonisation du Niger, 1946-1960 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7384-3100-3 , pp. 256 .
  4. ^ André Salifou: La question touarègue au Niger . Karthala, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-86537-434-3 , p. 41.
personal data
SURNAME Zakara, Mouddour
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Imanan
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1976
Place of death Niamey