Sani Bako

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Mahamane Sani Bako (born April 25, 1951 in Tessaoua , † December 12, 1997 in Niamey ) was a Nigerien politician and diplomat .

Life

Sani Bako headed the Directorate for International Organizations in the Nigerian Foreign Ministry before becoming Secretary General of the Ministry. In 1985 he succeeded Idé Oumarou as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation in the government of Head of State Seyni Kountché . After Kountché's death in 1987 and under the new President Ali Saïbou , Bako initially retained this portfolio until he was appointed Niger's ambassador to Brussels in 1988 . In his place, Habibou Allélé became Foreign Minister. The following year, around ten months after Sani Bako left the government, President Saïbou reappointed him as Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. In this office he was replaced in 1991 in the interim government of Prime Minister Amadou Cheiffou by Hassane Hamidou .

Sani Bako's brother-in-law, President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , who came to power in a military coup in 1996 , brought him back to the government as his head of cabinet in 1997 . Bako died of a heart attack six months later .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mamadou Dagra : La politique extérieure du Niger (1974-1987). Contribution à l'étude des structures diplomatiques et de la politique africaine d'un Etat sahélien . Thèse pour le Doctorat d'état. Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar 1987, p. 78 ( sist.sn [PDF; accessed on September 11, 2016]).
  2. ^ Gouvernements du President Seyni Kountché. Presidential Office of the Republic of Niger, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved September 11, 2016 (French).
  3. ↑ a b Governments of the President Ali Chaibou. Presidential Office of the Republic of Niger, archived from the original on December 12, 2008 ; Retrieved September 11, 2016 (French).
  4. ↑ Aboubacar Kio Koudizé: La Diplomatie nigérienne . NIN, Niamey 2009, p. 101 .
  5. ^ Gouvernements de la Transition de Cheffou Amadou. Presidential Office of the Republic of Niger, archived from the original on November 14, 2009 ; Retrieved September 11, 2016 (French).
  6. ↑ a b Cheikh Yérim Seck: Afrique: le specter de l'échec . L'Harmattan, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-7384-9626-1 , pp. 170 .
  7. ^ Governments of the President Ibrahim Maïnassara Barré. Presidential Office of the Republic of Niger, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved September 11, 2016 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Bako, Sani
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bako, Mahamane Sani (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Tessaoua
DATE OF DEATH December 12, 1997
Place of death Niamey