Moustapha Niasse

Moustapha Niasse (* November 4, 1939 in Keur Madiabel ) was in 1983 and 2000 to 2001 Prime Minister of Senegal.

Political career

Niasse comes from a small town near Kaolack. After attending school in his hometown, he attended the Lycée Faidherbe in Saint Louis. He studied in Paris and Dakar. In 1967 he was press and information director and in 1970 director of the Cabinet Leopold Sedar Senghor longtime president.

On March 15, 1979, he resigned as Minister of Planning and the environment to the cabinet and took over on 19 September, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. To this end, he took on 3 April 1983, a few weeks until April 29, the Office of the Prime Minister During this period he belonged to since the country's independence from France in 1960 ruling Parti Socialiste du Senegal ( PPS). From 1984 on, he worked for the next nine years in the private sector.

In June 1993 he was again foreign minister and remained in office until July 1998. For the United Nations, he acted after a special mission to Central Africa. After his break with the ruling since 1981 president Abdou Diouf, he founded the Party Alliance des forces for progress ( AFP) and entered in 2000 in the presidential elections. In the first round of elections on February 27, 2000 reached the with 16.77 % of votes in third place after Diouf and the ultimately victorious Abdoulaye Wade and retired.

The new President Abdoulaye Wade appointed him as Prime Minister on 5 April 2000. His term ended with his resignation on March 3, 2001. 's Parliamentary elections on April 29, 2001 reached its AFP, its general secretary he is, 16.13 % of the vote and 11 seats out of 120.

2002 it to the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed as his special envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where he was to assist in the formation of a government of national unity. An offer made by President Abdoulaye Wade to re-enter the government, he refused on 17 February 2004.