Salifou Mody

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Salifou Mody (born October 18, 1962 in Zinder ; also Salifou Modi ) is a Nigerien officer .

Life

Salifou Mody went to school in Niamey from 1969 to 1975 . He then attended military school in Bingerville in Ivory Coast , which he graduated in 1983. That year he joined the Nigerien armed forces . He completed further military training in Cameroon , France and Madagascar . Mody was used from 1993 as a commander of various units in N'Guigmi , Agadez and Niamey and reached the rank of captain . In 1998 he was promoted to major and took over the leadership of the national intervention and security forces.

When President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was killed in a military coup in 1999, Salifou Mody became a member of the Council of National Reconciliation , the 14-member military junta chaired by Daouda Malam Wanké , which ruled Niger until the free elections in late 1999. He then continued his career in the armed forces. When President Mamadou Tandja, elected for the first time in 1999, tried to obtain a third term in office not provided for in the constitution, he dismissed the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ground Forces, who appeared to him to be potentially disloyal, and filled the post with Salifou Mody. But Mody turned his back on him: When Tandja was ousted by a military coup in 2010, Mody became a member of the new military junta, the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy , chaired by Salou Djibo . He also became Chief of Staff of the Ground Forces instead of Mamadou Ousseini . In 2011, the junta passed power to the new president, Mahamadou Issoufou .

Salifou Mody was then transferred abroad. In 2011, President Issoufou appointed him military attaché at the Nigerian embassy in Germany . After loss-making terrorist attacks on the military camps in Inatès and Siné Godar , Salifou Mody was appointed Chief of the General Staff of the Nigerien Armed Forces in the place of Ahmed Mohamed in early 2020 with the rank of division general.

Honors

  • Knight of the Nigerien Order of Merit (1998)
  • Knight of the Nigerien National Order (2003)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 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. 399-400 .
  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. 385 .
  3. ↑ Christophe Boisbouvier: Tandja face à l'armée. In: Jeune Afrique . November 30, 2009, accessed June 19, 2017 (French).
  4. ↑ A la Présidence du Conseil Suprême pour la Restauration de la Démocratie: the Chef de l'Etat signe un décret fixant the composition du Conseil Suprême pour la Restauration de la Démocratie. In: Niger Diaspora. October 12, 2010, accessed June 19, 2017 (French).
  5. ↑ 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 ( nigerdiaspora.net [PDF; accessed June 19, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Niger: Comment Issoufou désarme les gradés. In: Tamtam Info. April 23, 2012, accessed June 19, 2017 (French).
  7. ↑ Niger: Le Général de Division Salifou Modi prend la tête de l'état-Major général des armées. Agence Nigérienne de Presse (ANP), January 13, 2020, accessed on January 11, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Mody, Salifou
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Modi, Salifou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien officer
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH cinder