Mohamed Bazoum

Mohamed Bazoum ( born January 1, 1960 in N'Guigmi ) is a Nigerien politician. It is Niger's foreign minister since 2011.

Life

Mohamed Bazoum belongs to the Arab minority in Niger. His family is from Tesker. Bazoum worked as a teacher of philosophy. He holds a post-graduate degree in logic and epistemology. Mohamed Bazoum was active from the 1990s politically in the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism ( PNDS - Tarayya ). In 1991 he was appointed as Secretary of State for Cooperation in the government of Prime Minister Amadou Cheiffou. Subsequently, he was from 1993 to 1995, second vice president of the National Assembly. Bazoum was the first time from 1995 to 1996 Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. He initially remained in spite of the coup by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in this office - unlike Prime Minister Hama Amadou, the beginning of 1996 Baré Mäinassara was replaced by Boukary Adji.

Bazoum was for eight years after leaving the government as an independent political consultant. In 1998 he was detained by the police for a week. He was accused of being involved in a murder plot against President Baré Mäinassara. It was in this respect never brought charges against him. From 2004 to 2009 Bazoum returned for his party as a delegate back to the National Assembly. He was elected for the third time Vice President of the National Assembly. He also took to Niger a seat on the Pan-African Parliament. After the coup d'état led by Salou Djibo Bazoum was from 2010 to 2011 a member of the Niger transitional parliament. After his party colleague Mahamadou Issoufou had won the presidential election of 2011, Mohamed Bazoum was appointed on 21 April 2011 in the government of Prime Minister Brigi Rafini minister of state for external affairs, cooperation, African integration and Auslandsnigrer. Bazoum also took over from Issoufou the PNDS - Tarayya leadership: first interim basis, beginning in 2013 as an elected party chairman.