Mamane Oumarou

Mamane Oumarou (* 1945 in Diffa ) is a Nigerien politician and diplomat. He was the 1983 and 1988-1989 Prime Minister of his country.

Life

Mamane Oumarou belongs to the ethnic group of the Kanuri. He attended from 1952 to 1958 the primary school in his birthplace of Diffa and 1958-1963 Lycée National in the capital Niamey. Then he graduated from the Ecole Nationale d'Administration in Niamey. Oumarou worked from 1967 to 1972 in the Municipality of Zinder. He was appointed in 1974 as deputy prefect of the department of Zinder, 1975 sub-prefect of the department Mirriah and 1976 the mayor of Maradi. He held until 1981 this office. In the same year President Seyni Kountché him certain of Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture.

The regime of Seyni Kountché decided to create the post of Prime Minister, was appointed to the Mamane Oumarou on 24 January 1983. On November 14, 1983 he was made president of the National Development Council and thus to protocol number two in the state after Seyni Kountché on. Prime Minister in his place was Hamid Algabid. Oumarou headed the National Development Council until 10 September 1987. He organized during this time nationwide discussions under the theme of " development company", the former state doctrine Niger. After Kountché death Oumarou was sent as ambassador to Canada, but almost a year later already, re-appointed Prime Minister on 15 July 1988 of President Ali Saibou. At the founding congress of the Unity Party of National Movement of the Development Society in May 1989, he was also a member of the national executive office. On 20 December 1989, the office of Prime Minister was abolished.

Oumarou worked from 1990 to 1996 than in Egypt, Sudan and Turkey accredited ambassador in Cairo. In 1996 he became ambassador to Riyadh and was accredited as such in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Yemen and Brunei. Mamadou Tandja President, a party colleague Oumarous, appointed him in 2008 to Médiateur de la République, a kind of state ombudsman, which was seen as a personal favor and supply items. Oumarou lost this office by the overthrow of Tandja in 2010.

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