Soumana Zanguina

Soumana Zanguina (* 1960 in Tahoua ) is a Nigerien officer .

Life

Soumana Zanguina attended elementary and middle school, which he left with a Baccalauréat . In 1979 he became a member of the Nigerien armed forces . He completed military training in France : at the Saint-Cyr military school and - as a sub-lieutenant - at the Montpellier infantry school , which he graduated in 1983.

Zanguina was the same year in the seventh Zugsführer motorized Sahara - Company in n'gourti whose command he first took over on an interim basis 1985th He had held the rank of lieutenant since 1984 . In 1986 he moved to the 2nd Motorized Sahara Company in Agadez , worked in 1988 in the Tondibiah military camp as a trainer and for a short time as its commander, and in the same year became commander of the 7th Motorized Sahara Company in N'Gourti. In 1990 Zanguina took command of the 2nd paratrooper company in Maradi .

He received the rank of captain in 1991 and became the commandant of the armed forces training camp in Agadez. The following year he was assigned to the General Staff. He then worked in 1993 as the commander of the 5th Motorized Sahara Company in Tahoua. His next positions as an officer were from 1994 onwards in the 13th Partial Forces Battalion , in 1995 Defense Zone No. 2 in Agadez and in early 1996 the 22nd Partial Forces Battalion. In a military coup on January 27, 1996, the officer Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara came to power. Under the new head of state, Soumana Zanguina was still in 1996 commander of the 13th joint armed forces battalion and in 1997 commander of the 12th joint armed forces battalion.

Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was killed on April 9, 1999 in a military coup led by Daouda Malam Wanké . In the military junta established two days later under Wanké , the council of national reconciliation consisting of 14 officers , Zanguina was appointed deputy chairman. At the same time, he became a lieutenant colonel and, as the successor to Moussa Moumouni Djermakoye, chief of the general staff of the armed forces. The junta's goal was to accompany the return to a civil, democratic government. Soon Zanguina was said to have connections with officers close to Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara. On July 20, 1999, he lost his position as Chief of the General Staff to Moumouni Boureima . Although he remained a member of the Council of National Reconciliation, on July 29, 1999, the post of Vice-Chair was abolished. Instead, Zanguina received the title of Advisory Minister to the Presidency of the Council of National Reconciliation with the rank of Minister of State. The junta was dissolved in December 1999 following the 1999 presidential and parliamentary elections .

Soumana Zanguina was then assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After an interlude as a military attaché at the Nigerian embassy in Morocco from June 2002, he became a military attaché at the Nigerian embassy in the United States in July 2002 . He held this office until 2012. In 2013 he became director of strategic studies in the Nigerien Ministry of Defense , now with the rank of colonel .

Honors

• Commander of the National Order of Niger

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 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. 401-402 .
2. ↑ Les Chefs d'Etat-major des Armées de 1960 à 2015. (No longer available online.) Ministère de la Défense du Niger, archived from the original on September 17, 2017 ; Retrieved July 8, 2017 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Regina Wegemund: Niger . In: Rolf Hofmeier, Cord Jakobeit (Hrsg.): Afrika Jahrbuch 1999. Politics, economy and society in Africa south of the Sahara . Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2000, ISBN 978-3-322-91352-4 , p. 141 .
4. ^ Hassane Daouda: Décoration à l'Ambassade des Etats Unis au Niger: Le Colonel Major Soumana Zanguina élevé au grade de la Légion du mérite des Etats Unis d'Amérique. In: Le Sahel . 2012, accessed July 8, 2017 (French). 
5. ^ Conseil des ministres du mercredi 24-07-2013. (No longer available online.) ORTN , July 26, 2013, archived from the original on March 14, 2017 ; Retrieved July 8, 2017 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.