Yahaya Tounkara

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Yahaya Tounkara (* 1939 in Dogondoutchi ) is a Nigerien politician .

Life

Yahaya Tounkara is a trained veterinarian . He graduated in 1968 from the École nationale vétérinaire de Toulouse in France with a thesis on the production of animal fur in Niger. Tounkara has held several ministerial offices since the rule of the Supreme Military Council under Seyni Kountché . From 1977 to 1978 he was State Secretary for health and social affairs and from 1978 to 1980 Minister. From 1980 to 1982 he served as Minister for Water Management and from 1982 until his provisional resignation from the government in 1985 as Minister for Water Management and Environment. From 1984 he held the honorary rank of Minister of State. He also became Grand Chancellor honored by the national order of Niger.

After Seyni Kountché's death in 1987, Ali Saïbou , his successor as head of state, brought Yahaya Tounkara back into government. Tounkara was Minister for Higher Education, Research and Technology from 1987 to 1988 and Minister of State for Planning and Regional Planning from 1988 to 1989. Under Ali Saïbou, the National Assembly was re-established as Niger’s parliament, in which from 1989 to 1991 members of the new unity party National Development Society sat. These included Yahaya Tounkara, who served as chairman of the parliamentary committee on finance and planning. President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara , who came to power through a military coup , appointed him Defense Minister in 1997 . Tounkara became a member of the president's new party, the Alliance for Democracy and Progress (RDP-Jama'a). He lost his ministerial office in 1999 when the government was overthrown in a military coup in which Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was killed. When Tounkara requested an investigation into the president's death, he was placed under house arrest for several days.

He later worked as a special advisor to President Mamadou Tandja, who was in office from 1999 to 2010 . Furthermore, from 1998 to 2007 he was President of the Ordre National des Vétérinaires du Niger , the National Order of Veterinarians in Niger. Until 2014 he was President of the Nigerien national organization of the Global Water Partnership .

Individual evidence

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  2. ^ Gouvernements du President Seyni Kountché. Présidence de la République du Niger, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved October 8, 2017 (French).
  3. ↑ Mihail Graniceanu: Assistance au Ministère des mines et industries. DP / NER / 81/016. Niger. Final report . UNIDO , Vienna July 8, 1986, p. 158 ( open.unido.org [PDF; accessed October 8, 2017]).
  4. ^ Governments of the President Ali Chaibou. Présidence de la République du Niger, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved October 8, 2017 (French).
  5. ^ Journal officiel de la République française . No. 57 , October 4, 1990, p. 3283 ( archives.assemblee-nationale.fr [PDF; accessed October 8, 2017]).
  6. ^ Governments of the President Ibrahim Maïnassara Barré. Présidence de la République du Niger, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved October 8, 2017 (French).
  7. ↑ Au RDP Jama'a. L'embrouillement. In: Liberation-Niger. January 11, 2007, accessed October 8, 2017 (French).
  8. ↑ 1999 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Niger. (PDF) Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. US Department of State, February 25, 2000, p. 5 , accessed October 8, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Yahaya Tounkara: Souvenirs of the missions de supervision du Program spécial du Président de la République (PS-PRN) in the region de Zinder . In: Sahel Dimanche . No. 1348 , July 24, 2009, p. 2 ( nigerdiaspora.net [PDF; accessed October 8, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Historique de la creation de l'Ordre. (PDF) Ordre National des Vétérinaires du Niger, accessed on October 8, 2017 (French).
  11. ↑ GWP / Afrique de l'Ouest. Rapport d'activités janvier - décembre 2014. (PDF) Global Water Partnership, September 2014, p. 7 , accessed on October 8, 2017 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Tounkara, Yahaya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Dogondoutchi