Yayé Garba

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Yayé Garba (born December 31, 1957 in N'Gonga , † May 11, 2013 in Bamako ; also: Yaya Garba ) was a Nigerien officer .

Life

Yayé Garba was born in the N'Gonga village of Louloudjé. After primary and secondary school, he went to the military academy in Antsirabe in Madagascar from 1978 to 1981 and joined the Nigerien armed forces . He stayed several times for military training courses in France , where he attended, among other things, the school for airborne troops in Pau . Garba was promoted to lieutenant in 1983 and in 1985 was appointed commander of a paratrooper company in Niamey . In 1989 he became the commandant of a paratrooper company in Maradi and in 1990 the command of the training group at the Tondibiah military camp . He reached the rank of major in 1993 and became commandant of Defense Zone No. 2 in Agadez , then in November 1995, Commander of Defense Zone No. 3 in Zinder .

Garba was one of the twelve officers who came to power in the military coup on January 27, 1996, when they ousted President Mahamane Ousmane and his government and repealed the constitution. The twelve officers were chaired by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara the advice of the national interest , which until December 1996, the military junta was in the country. Garba took over the management of the 3rd office of the General Staff of the Nigerien Armed Forces in August 1996. In July 1998 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel. From December 1998 to May 1999 he was Prefect of the Agadez Department. Garba then became director of strategic studies in the Nigerien Ministry of Defense. He interrupted this activity when he took part in the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2000/2001 . In July 2003 he reached the rank of colonel . Under the military junta of the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy , Garba was appointed governor of the Agadez Region (formerly Agadez Department) in March 2010. His term of office expired in May 2011. In 2012, Yayé Garba was appointed Brigadier General and Deputy Commander of the African-led International Support Mission to Mali . He suffered sudden cardiac death the following year . He left a widow named Haoua and five children.

Honors

  • Grand Cross of the Nigerien National Order (2011)
  • Officer of the Nigerien Order of Merit (2007)
  • UN medal (2001)
  • Médaille des Théâtres d'opérations extérieurs (2005)
  • Médaille d'Or de la Defense Française (2010)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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. 366-367 .
  2. ↑ Communiqué du secrétariat permanant du Conseil Suprême pour la Restauration de la Démocratie: nomination of the governor of the régions. (No longer available online.) In: Niger Diaspora. March 11, 2010, archived from the original on November 12, 2013 ; Retrieved November 12, 2013 (French).
  3. ↑ Les élections législatives partial de la région d'Agadez se déroulent normalement. (No longer available online.) In: Afriquinfos. May 16, 2011, archived from the original on November 12, 2013 ; Retrieved November 12, 2013 (French).
  4. ↑ obsèques du General de Brigade Yaye Garba: La Nation rend un hommage au mérité valeureux officier of the FAN. (No longer available online.) In: lesahel.org. 2009, archived from the original on November 12, 2013 ; Retrieved November 12, 2013 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Garba, Yayé
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garba, Yaya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nigerien officer
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH N'Gonga
DATE OF DEATH May 11th, 2013
Place of death Bamako