Issoufou Saidou-Djermakoye
Issoufou Saïdou Djermakoye (* July 10, 1920 in Dosso, French West Africa, † 13 June 2000 ) was a Nigerien politician and diplomat.
Life
Issoufou Saïdou Djermakoye was a nephew of Abdou Aoûta Djermakoye, the reigning from 1902 to 1913, the traditional ruler of Dosso entitled Djermakoye. He attended schools in Algiers and Paris. From 1939 he served in the French army and took part in the 1940 Battle of France. He then continued his education at the Paris Lycée Saint- Louis, and in 1943 at this school, the first high school graduate from Niger.
Saïdou Djermakoye was a founding member and the first president of the Central Committee of the Nigerien Progressive Party (PPN - RDA). He headed the delegation of his party in the founding meeting of the African Democratic Rally Party ( RDA), which was held in Bamako in 1946. 1947 could be Saïdou Djermakoye choose council member of the French Union, which he remained until its dissolution in 1958. He was in 1948 involved in the founding of a new party, the Union of independent people in Niger and sympathizers (UNIS ). In the elections to the Territorial Assembly in 1952, he was elected deputy for the district of Dosso and had a seat in the Grand Conseil of French West Africa. A year later he resigned from the UNIS, was initially a founding member of the Nigerien Progressive Union (UPN ), and then a member of the Nigerien action block ( BNA), the 1956 with the Nigerien Democratic Union ( UDN) of Djibo Bakary to Niger section of the African Socialist Movement (MSA ) merged. The re- election to the Territorial Assembly in 1957, lost Saïdou Djermakoye, for which he was elected to the French Senate on June 8, 1958. There he became involved in the Commission of Foreign Affairs, Defence and Armed Forces. Contrary to the party line, he was a supporter of Niger's independence referendum on 28 September 1958, and was subsequently again a member of the Nigerien Progressive Party, for which he was elected a deputy in the elections to the Territorial Assembly in Niger in 1958.
Less than a week later Prime Minister Hamani Diori designated him as Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers. His mandate as a French senator ended on 15 June 1959. Hamani Diori called him on April 2, 1959 as Minister of Justice in the government. On December 31, 1960 Saïdou Djermakoye took instead the function of the Office of the President allocated Minister from August 11, 1962 with the addition of the responsibility for international cooperation. From 25 June to 23 November 1965, he was again Minister of Justice and then resigned from the government. His successor as Minister of Justice was Mahamane Dan Dobi.
Then hit Issoufou Saïdou Djermakoye a diplomatic career. He was the ambassador of Niger in the United States and head of the Permanent Mission of his country at the United Nations in New York City. From 1967 to 1982 he worked under the Secretaries-General U Thant and Kurt Waldheim as an official for the United Nations, including as Under Secretary of the UN Trusteeship Council.
1982 Saïdou Djermakoye first went into retirement until he advanced in years took office the 18th Djermakoye of Dosso 1998. This position he held until his death. He was buried in the palace of Djermakoye in Dosso.
Honors
- Croix de Guerre 1939-1945
- Knight of the Order of the Black Star of Benin
- Officer of the National Order of the Niger
- Commander of the Legion of Honor
- Knight of the Ordre du Million d' royal Éléphants et du Parasol Blanc
- Commander of the Order of the Comoros
- Commander of the Order of Upper Volta
- Commander of the National Order of Senegal