Moumouni Boureima

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Moumouni Boureima (* 1. April 1952 in Gaya , called Tchanga ) is a Nigerien general , politician and diplomat .

Life

Moumouni Boureima belongs to the Tyenga ethnic group , from which its nickname Tchanga is derived. He joined the Nigerien Armed Forces in 1974 after attending primary and secondary school, which he graduated with a baccalaureate . He completed an officer training at the military school in Cherchell in Algeria from 1974 to 1976 and then received the rank of officer candidate. In 1977 he was a company commander at the Armed Forces Training Center in Tondibiah and was made a lieutenant . Boureima attended the Pioneer Troop School in Angers , France , from 1978 to 1979 . In 1979 he worked first as a platoon leader with the engineer company in Niamey and then, now with the rank of lieutenant , as a construction manager in the defense zone No. 3 in Zinder . The following year he became the commander of the nomad peloton in Tesker . In 1982 he was briefly adjutant at the 5th Motorized Sahara Company in Tahoua and teaching officer at the training center of the armed forces in Tondibiah, until he was transferred, initially on an interim basis, the command of the engineer company in Niamey. He received the rank of captain in 1985 . Boureima led two mixed engineering and construction teams, 1986 for Dirkou Airport and 1988 for the road between Ouallam and Dingazi Banda . He stayed in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1989 to 1991 for the purpose of further training for senior officers . In 1991, initially on an interim basis, he was promoted to command of the 4th Joint Battalion in Tahoua and to a major .

His next military function was from 1992 that of the commander of the defense zone No. 1 in Niamey, which means that practically all military commands in the capital were subordinate to him. In addition, he became the commander of the 12th Joint Battalion in 1995. In Niger, the multiparty democracy , which was only reintroduced in 1990, found itself in a serious crisis when President Mahamane Ousmane ( CDS-Rahama ) no longer had a parliamentary majority and the President and the government under Prime Minister Hama Amadou ( MNSD-Nassara ) blocked each other. With the justification of a liberation strike, the military seized power on January 27, 1996 under the head of the General Staff Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara . The state was run by the Council of National Welfare , a twelve-member military junta to which Moumouni Boureima was appointed. Shortly thereafter, Boureima was promoted to lieutenant colonel . The rule of the Council of National Welfare ended after the controversial presidential elections on July 7 and 8, 1996 , in which Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was confirmed as head of state. In 1997 Boureima became Prefect President of the Niamey Community of Communes . Baré Maïnassara's authoritarian leadership style again led to a military coup in which the head of state was killed on April 9, 1999. Moumouni Boureima supported the coup and on 11 April 1999 became a member of the Council of National Reconciliation , the military junta led by Daouda Malam Wanké . On April 19, 1999 Boureima was appointed Minister of the Interior and Regional Planning in the transitional government. In this office he replaced him on July 20, 1999 with Ali Aga Dan Kaoura from another officer.

On the same day, Boureima was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces. A few months later he was promoted to colonel . He was considered very popular and influential in the armed forces. When the Council of National Reconciliation handed over power to the elected President Mamadou Tandja (MNSD-Nassara) after the presidential elections on November 24, 1999 , Boureima retained his position as Chief of the General Staff. Tandja promoted him to the rank of Brigadier General in 2004 . Boureima hit the headlines in 2007 when he publicly threatened journalist Moussa Kaka , who was accused of being linked to the Nigerien paramilitary movement for justice , with death. The following year he narrowly escaped death when a vehicle from his convoy hit a land mine near Iférouane . In 2009 Mamadou Tandja pushed through his third term as president, which is not provided for in the constitution, against widespread opposition. While it was widely believed that he could count on the support of his chief of staff, Boureima, the latter did nothing to defend himself when Tandja was ousted on February 28, 2010 in a military coup led by Salou Djibo . This time Moumouni Boureima was not accepted into the new military junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy . In addition, he was replaced on March 1, 2010 by Salou Djibo as Chief of the General Staff by Salou Souleymane . In order to enable Boureima to make an honorable exit, the military junta appointed him Niger's ambassador to Egypt on July 8, 2010 . In October 2010 the suspicion arose that he was part of a conspiracy to remove the head of state Salou Djibo. Even before he could be arrested in his house in Niamey, he received a corresponding tip from military circles, sat secretly on the plane of the Egyptian national soccer team to Cairo and was no longer prosecuted for the allegations against him.

Honors

  • Knight of the Order of Merit Niger (1985)
  • Knight (1990), Officer (1995) and Commander (2000) of the National Order of Niger
  • Commander of the Palmes Académiques (2000)

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. 106 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f 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. 373-374 .
  3. ↑ 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. 351-352 .
  4. ^ Tidjani Alou: Les militaires politiciens . In: Idrissa Kimba (ed.): Armée et politique au Niger . Codesria, Dakar 2008, ISBN 2-86978-216-0 , p. 107 and 113 .
  5. ↑ Paysage de campagne. In: Jeune Afrique . November 7, 2004, accessed April 26, 2016 (French).
  6. ↑ Communiqué de Presse AFR 43/002/2007. (PDF file) Amnesty International , September 26, 2007, accessed April 26, 2016 (French).
  7. ↑ a b c Seidik Abba: Niger: la junte militaire et ses dix affaires secrètes (2010-2011) . L'Harmattan, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-343-00366-5 , pp. 47-48 .
  8. ↑ La haute hiérarchie de l'armée réaménagée . In: L'Actualité. Hebdomaire Nigérien d'informations générales, de réflexions et d'opinions . No. 29 , March 3, 2010, p. 2 ( PDF file [accessed April 26, 2016]).
  9. ↑ Conseil des ministres du Niger du jeudi 8 July 2010 (Le communiqué). In: Ouestaf News. July 9, 2010, archived from the original on April 25, 2016 ; Retrieved April 26, 2016 (French).
  10. ↑ Seidik Abba: Niger: la junte militaire et ses dix affaires secrètes (2010–2011) . L'Harmattan, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-343-00366-5 , pp. 49-50 .
personal data
SURNAME Boureima, Moumouni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tchanga (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien general, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Gaya