Saliou Akadiri

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Saliou Akadiri (* 1950 in Issaba, Pobè , Département Plateau , French Dahomey ) is a Benin diplomat and politician of the Republic of Dahomey , who was Benin's Foreign Minister between 2015 and 2016 .

Life

Saliou Akadiri, who belongs to the Yoruba people , completed his school education and undergraduate studies in Porto-Novo between 1957 and 1972 . He then completed a law degree at the Université du Dahomey , from which the Université Nationale du Bénin emerged in 1975 , in 1976. After completing his diplomatic training, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and between 1976 and 1984 he was Head of the Africa and Europe Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After a subsequent further course in development and cooperation at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne , which he completed in 1985 with a Diplômé d'études supérieures spécialisées en développement et coopération , he returned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and was again director between 1985 and 1987 the Africa and Europe Department. In 1987 he became Counselor for Political Affairs at the Embassy in France and remained in that post until he left the diplomatic service in 1998.

Akadiri then worked from 1998 to 2006 at the Organization internationale de la francophonie (OIF), the Paris-based International Organization for Francophonie , and acted as head of cabinet of Roger Dehaybe, the general director of their Agence Intergouvernementale de la Francophonie . On his return he became mayor of Pobè . During the tenure of President Boni Yayi , after Prime Minister Lionel Zinsou took office on June 18, 2015, he became Foreign Minister in his cabinet, which included Placide Azandé as Interior Minister, Théophile Yarou as Defense Minister and Komi Koutché as Finance Minister.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ José do Nascimento: La renaissance africaine comme alternative au développement: Les termes du choix politique en Afrique , p. 5, Editions L'Harmattan, 2008
  2. ^ Europa World Year 2004 , Taylor & Francis Group, p. 358
  3. ↑ Benin: Foreign Ministers
  4. ↑ Benin: June 18, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Akadiri, Saliou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Beninese politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Issaba, Pobè , Plateau department , French Dahomey