Brigi Rafini
Brigi Rafini ( born April 7, 1953 in Iférouane ) is a Nigerien politician. He is since 2011 the Prime Minister of the country.
Life
Brigi Rafini, belonging to the ethnic group of the Tuareg, the middle school attended in Agadez. From 1971 to 1974 and from 1978 to 1981 he studied at the École Nationale d'Administration in Paris. His career in the political administration began Rafini as office manager in the Niger Ministry of Public Service and Labour. Subsequently he worked as Chef de Cabinet of the prefecture of the department of Niamey, Secretary General of the Prefecture of the Department of Diffa, Sub-Prefect of the arrondissement Dosso and Sub-Prefect of the arrondissement Keita.
1987 Brigi Rafini Secretary - first of Internal Affairs, then in the same year for agriculture and the environment - in the government of Prime Minister Hamid Algabid under President Ali Saibou. In July 1988 Rafini got the post of Minister of Agriculture. From December 1989 to August 1991 he served as president of the National Development Council. This consultative body was created under the increasingly authoritarian ruling President Saibou. Rafini was first party Member of MNSD - Nassara and then subsequently moved to ANDP - Zaman Lahiya. He was then managing director of the prefecture of the department of Agadez as well as General Secretary and First Council ( conseiller principal) of the National Assembly in Niamey. From 1994 to 1995 he held again in France. After the coup d'état led by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in January 1996 Rafini took, now RDP - Jama'a member of various functions in a transitional bodies. In 2004 he was elected mayor of his home town Iférouane and a deputy in the National Assembly. By 2009, he was the fourth Vice President of the National Assembly and President of the National Association of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
After the presidential elections in Niger in 2011, now appeared as a member of the victorious PNDS - Tarayya in Rafini, the new president Mahamadou Issoufou appointed him as Prime Minister on 7 April 2011.