Cheick Modibo Diarra

Cheick Modibo Diarra ( born 1952 in Nioro du Sahel ) is a Malian astrophysicist, businessman and politician. He was on April 17, 2012 to December 11, 2012 Prime Minister of Mali.

Life

Diarra was born in western Mali near the border with Mauritania. He is the son of former Malian president Moussa Traoré. After completing his schooling in Mali, he studied mathematics and physics at the University Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris and then air - and space technology at Howard University in Washington DC, where in 1987 he earned his doctorate. He then worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology ( " Caltech " ), where he was involved in various space projects at NASA. During this time he also acquired American citizenship. Its origin from Mali but does not forget and was temporarily exempt from 1999 from his obligations at NASA to initiate development projects in Mali. In 2002 he founded a laboratory in Bamako, the use of solar energy in Mali. He was one of the organizers of the World Education Forum in Dakar ( World Education Forum, Forum mondial sur l' éducation) in April 2000 and the Africa Forum at the meeting of UNESCO in November 2001. Since February 20, 2006, he was President of Microsoft Africa. He held until the end of 2011 this post.

Policy

On 6 March 2011, he founded the political party in Bamako Rassemblement pour le développement du Mali ( RPDM, "Movement for the development of Mali " ) in order to compete as the top candidate in the presidential elections scheduled for 2012 in Mali can.

After the outbreak of the riots and the secession of the northern part of Mali under the name Azawad Diarra was appointed by the ruling since the coup in March 2012, military government on 17 April 2012 as the Prime Minister of Mali's transitional government. The government had formed of him national unity as a first target the restoration of state order in all parts of the country and the subsequent holding of free elections.

After being arrested by the military on December 10, 2012 Modibo Diarra said on the morning of December 11 in a statement on state television his resignation and the resignation of his entire cabinet.

Diarra took in the presidential election in Mali in 2013 in part as a candidate of his party RPDM. However, he ended up in eighth place.

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