Yansambou Maïga Diamballa

Yansambou Maïga Diamballa (* 1910 in Namaro , † January 19, 1976 in Niamey ) was a Nigerien politician. He was Niger's interior minister from 1958 to 1974 .

Life

Yansambou Maïga Diamballa belonged to the Songhai ethnic group . He was related to a canton chief of Namaro, who was descended from the rulers of the Songhaire Empire. Maïga Diamballa worked from 1929 to 1957 as a post office and tax office clerk, successively in Niamey, Bilma , Agadez , Maradi , Zinder and from 1949 again in Niamey. He was a founding member of the Nigerien Progressive Party , for which he was elected several times to the district council of Tillabéri . In 1956 he succeeded Barcourgné Courmo as vice-president of his party. On December 20, 1958, he was appointed minister of the interior of his country, which became independent from France in 1960, in the government of his brother-in-law and party friend Hamani Diori, succeeding Adamou Mayaki . Yansambou Maïga Diamballa was responsible for the repression of the republic under Hamani Diori, which included torture and executions on the basis of the death penalty . He was Minister of the Interior until the coup by Seyni Kountché on April 15, 1974. Because of his advanced age and poor health, Kountché did not allow him to be imprisoned, unlike most of his ministerial colleagues. Maïga Diamballa died almost two years later.

Honors

Black Star of Benin

Commander of the Nigerien National Order
Knight of the Legion of Honor
Ordre national du Mérite
Commander of the Tunisian National Order

Individual evidence

↑ Claude Fluchard: Le PPN-RDA et la décolonisation du Niger, 1946-1960 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7384-3100-3 , pp. 62 .
↑ ^a ^b Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , p. 310.
^ ^A ^b André Salifou: Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , pp. 267-268.

personal data
SURNAME	Maïga Diamballa, Yansambou
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Nigerien politician
DATE OF BIRTH	1910
PLACE OF BIRTH	Namaro
DATE OF DEATH	19th January 1976
Place of death	Niamey

[1] Claude Fluchard: Le PPN-RDA et la décolonisation du Niger, 1946-1960 . L'Harmattan, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-7384-3100-3 , pp. 62 .

[Idrissa_S310-2] Abdourahmane Idrissa and Samuel Decalo: Historical Dictionary of Niger . 4th ed., Scarecrow, Plymouth 2012, ISBN 978-0-8108-6094-0 , p. 310.

[Salifou_S267268-3] A ^b André Salifou: Biographie politique de Hamani Diori. Premier President de la République du Niger . Karthala, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-8111-0202-9 , pp. 267-268.