Hamid Algabid

Hamid Algabid ( born January 1, 1941 in Belbédji ) is a Nigerien politician. He was Prime Minister from 1983 to 1988 and his country from 1988 to 1996 Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference.

Life

Hamid Algabid belongs to the ethnic group of Tuareg. He attended elementary school at the Lycée classique et Tanout and modern in Niamey. He was then a Licence in public law at the University of Abidjan and graduated in 1970 at the Institut International d'Administration Publique in Paris. In the same year he joined as head of department in the service of the Nigerien Ministry of Finance, where in 1972 he was promoted to General. He joined in 1976 as a manager with the Islamic Development Bank, where he worked until 1979.

Algabid belonged from 1979 to 1988 in various functions of the Nigerien government. On September 10, 1979, he became Secretary of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. He was on February 9, 1981 Minister of Commerce and from June 14, 1982 trade and transport ministers. On January 24, 1983, he was Deputy Minister of Finance. Head of state Seyni Kountché appointed him on 14 November 1983 as a successor of Mamane Oumarou prime minister. He held until July 15, 1988 this office. Due to the cancer of head of state Kountché which he succumbed on November 10, 1987, Algabid received on 6 July 1987, the signing authority for all regulations, decrees and other legal acts which are the head of state reserved. Hamid Algabid was elected in Amman on 24 March 1988 to the Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Until his appointment on December 30, 1988, he held in Niger from July 15, 1988 to the rank of Minister of State. In the same year he published his doctoral thesis in law at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne. He was elected as Secretary General of the Islamic Conference for a second term in 1992, which lasted until 31 December 1996. He ran in 1996 for the office of the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan was elected to the.

Algabid was, in 1997, a director of the mining company Compagnie Minière d' Akouta ( Cominak ). He joined the supporters of President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, who had come in 1996 by a coup d'etat. Algabid was elected in August 1997 at the founding congress of Baré Maïnassaras Alliance for Democracy and Progress ( RDP - Jama'a ) to whose party chairman. After Baré Maïnassaras violent death in 1999, a power struggle broke out about the party presidency, in which Hamid Algabid was able to prevail in court against Amadou Cissé. He ran for the RDP - Jama'a in the presidential elections in Niger in 1999 and reached the fourth place. After his election as deputies of the National Assembly in the parliamentary elections in Niger in 1999, he finished his work for the Cominak. He was chairman of the parliamentary faction of the RDP - Jama'a and a member of the parliamentary committee for finances. He was re-elected as party chairman of the RDP - Jama'a 2001, also elected Deputy Chairman of the RDP - Jama'a Parliamentary Group and the fourth Vice President of the Office of the National Assembly. Algabid also joined in the presidential elections in Niger 2004, but was working as a special envoy of the African Union in the Darfur conflict during the election campaign and reached only the sixth and last place. In the runoff election, he supported the winning candidate Mamadou Tandja ( MNSD - Nassara ). Algabid, who was re- elected to the National Assembly in the parliamentary elections in Niger in 2004, was rewarded for his support of the post of president of the Haut Conseil des Collectivités Territorial, who was responsible for decentralization in Niger. When President Tandja wanted to secure by the controversial constitutional referendum in Niger in 2009 for a third term, suspended the West African Economic Community ( ECOWAS) Niger's membership. Hamid Algabid was sent as one of several pro- Tandja negotiators for ECOWAS headquarters to Abuja. 2010 Tandja was deposed by a coup. In the presidential elections in Niger in 2011 Algabids RDP - Jama'a renounced its own candidate, and supported the election winner Mahamadou Issoufou ( PNDS - Tarayya ). Algabid since the parliamentary elections in Niger in 2011 no longer a deputy in the National Assembly, but remained chairman of the party of the RDP - Jama'a.

Writings

• Les Banques islamiques, Problematique générale et perspectives de développement. Dissertation. Université Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne, Paris 1988.
• Le rôle de la lutte contre la zakat dans la pauvreté. Nouvelle Imprimerie du Niger, Niamey, 2003.

Honors

• Commander of the National Order of Niger (1989 )
• Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of Niger (2000)