Foumakoye Gado

Foumakoye Gado is a Nigerien politician and the Secretary-General of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism-Tarayya (PNDS-Tarayya). [ [http://www.pnds-tarraya.org/CEN%202004.pdf PNDS-Tarayya National Executive Committee] , as of September 2004 fr icon.]

Gado was elected to the National Assembly of Niger in the February 1993 parliamentary election [ [http://droit.francophonie.org/df-web/publication.do?publicationId=548 "Afrique de l'Ouest - Niger - Cour suprême - 1993 - Arrêt no 93-10/cc du 18 mars 1993"] , droit.francophonie.org fr icon.] as a PNDS candidate in Dosso constituency. [ [http://droit.francophonie.org/df-web/publication.do?publicationId=1024 "Afrique de l'Ouest - Niger - Cour suprême - 1993 - Arrêt no 93-3/cc du 1er février 1993"] , droit.francophonie.org fr icon.] He was then appointed as Minister of Mines and Energy in the government of Prime Minister Mahamadou Issoufou (also the President of the PNDS) when it was named on April 23 1993. He served in that position until October 1994, [ [http://www.presidence.ne/PagesHtm/GouvMahamaneOusmane.htm "GOUVERNEMENTS DU PRESIDENT MAHAMANE OUSMANE"] , official web site of the Nigerien presidency fr.] when a new government was named following the PNDS's withdrawal from the ruling coalition. [Jibrin Ibrahim and Abdoulayi Niandou Souley, [http://www.unisa.ac.za/default.asp?Cmd=ViewContent&ContentID=11625 "The rise to power of an opposition party: the MNSD in Niger Republic"] , Unisa Press, Politeia, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1996.]

Gado was one of those arrested following an opposition demonstration on January 11 1997. [ [http://www.afrique-express.com/archive/OUEST/niger/pol/arrestationniger.htm "Les suites de la manifestation du 11 janvier 1997"] , "Afrique Express" fr icon.]

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