Aïchatou Mindaoudou

Dodo Aïchatou Mindaoudou Souleymane (* 1959 in Niger ) is a Nigerien jurist, politician and diplomat. She was from 1999 to 2000 and from 2001 to 2011, Foreign Minister of Niger. Since 2013, it is the UN Special Representative in the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire ( UNOCI ).

Life

Aïchatou Mindaoudous family hails from the city of Zinder. Mindaoudou received a bachelor's and master's degree in international law at the University of Abidjan and wrote a 1991 dissertation in international law at the University Panthéon- Sorbonne in Paris. They first taught law at the University of Niamey, participated in numerous conferences and wrote as a writer on the subjects of women, human and economic development and privatization.

Mindaoudou was considered a prominent party member of the National Movement of the Development Society ( MNSD - Nassara ) than in 1995 by President Mahamane Ousmane ( CDS Rahama ) to the Minister for Social Development, Population and promoting women's rights in the government of Prime Minister Hama Amadou ( MNSD - Nassara ) was appointed. She led the Nigerien delegation to the UN World Conference on Women in Beijing in 1995. In January 1996, President Ousmane and the government of Prime Minister Amadou was overthrown by a military coup that brought Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara to power. As Baré Maïnassara in turn was killed in a military coup in April 1999, the transitional head of state Daouda Malam Wanké Aïchatou Mindaoudou appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs and Co-operation in the transitional government of Prime Minister Ibrahim Hassane Mayaki. The 1999 presidential elections were won by Mamadou Tandja ( MNSD - Nassara ). In the government formed in January 2000 by President Tandja Mindaoudou was no longer represented. The Office of the Secretary of State took over Nassirou Sabo ( MNSD - Nassara ). In a cabinet reshuffle in September 2001 Mindaoudou was Foreign Minister again, Prime Minister Hama Amadou was again. She represented Niger in 2005 successfully in the border dispute with Benin to the island Lété before the International Court of Justice in The Hague. Niger from 2005 to 2007, the country holding the Presidency of the West African Economic Community ( ECOWAS). During this time Mindaoudou was the Chairman of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers for mediation and peace, and as such was responsible for the peace operations of ECOWAS in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea- Bissau and Togo. Prime Minister Amadou crashed 2007 on a vote of no confidence. Mindaoudou who was a close friend of President Tandja, retained their ministerial office in the subsequent governments of Prime Minister Seini Oumarou, Albadé Abouba and Ali Bajau Gamatié. After the fall of Mamadou Tandja in a military coup in February 2010 Mindaoudou was asked no more ministerial positions available in the transitional government formed by the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy.

Aïchatou Mindaoudou then proposed a career one at the United Nations. In June 2011 she was appointed Deputy Special Representative for Political Affairs at the African Union Hybrid Operation and the United Nations operation in Darfur (UNAMID ). For this mission, she was from August 2012 to March 2013 Acting Special Representative and head of an interim basis mediator. In May 2013 their appeal was made to the UN Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire ( UNOCI ).

Mindaoudou is a mother of two children.

Honors

• Great Officer of the Legion of Honour (2006)