Mame Madior Boye

Mame Madior Boye ( born 1940 ) is a Senegalese lawyer and politician. She was 2001-2002 Prime Minister of Senegal.

Political career

Boye Mame worked after her training as a prosecutor and judge. After the resignation of the Government Moustapha Niasse she appointed the reigning since 2000 President Abdoulaye Wade as his successor. She was previously Minister of Justice since May 2000. She took office on March 3, 2001. The government was strengthened by the parliamentary elections on 29 April 2001. Heard you like Abdoulaye Wade of the Parti Démocratique party Sénégalais (PDS ). Their term of office ended with her ​​dismissal by the President on November 4, 2002. He justified this step later with a lack of communication between the government and him. The immediate cause was the misfortune of the ferry Joola ferry off the coast of Gambia's the end of September. It had been about a thousand deaths.

In September 2004, she convened the African Union Special Representative for the protection of civilians in armed conflict.

On 12 September 2008, the French judge Jean -Noël Wilfrid issued international arrest warrants for Mame Madior Boye and other senior Senegalese officials, including the ex-minister of the armed forces, the ex- Minister of Transport as well as senior army and navy nationals for alleged responsibility for the sinking of the ferry Joola ferry.