Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou

Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou is a Nigerien politician. A member of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya), he served in the government of Niger as Minister of Mines, Energy, and Industry from 1991 to 1993 and has been Minister of Finance since 2011.

In the transitional government of Prime Minister Ahmadou Cheiffou, appointed on 7 November 1991, Mahamadou was included as Minister of Mines, Energy, Industry, and Crafts.^[1] He was retained in his post in a cabinet reshuffle on 31 January 1993.^[2] Multiparty elections were held in February 1993, bringing the transition to an end; Mahamadou was not included in the government that was appointed on 23 April 1993.^[3] He served as Deputy Executive Secretary of ECOWAS later in the 1990s^[4] and then worked as Lutheran World Relief's Regional Representative for West Africa.^[5]

After PNDS President Mahamadou Issoufou won the January–March 2011 presidential election and took office as President of Niger, Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou was appointed to the government as Minister of Finance on 21 April 2011.^[6][7]

References

1. ^ Africa Research Bulletin: Political Series, volumes 28–29 (1991), page 10,336.
2. ^ Marchés tropicaux et méditerranéens, issues 2,460–2,485 (1993), page 356 (French).
3. ^ Bulletin de l'Afrique noire, issues 1,615–1,659 (1993), page 202 (French).
4. ^ The Weekly Review (1996), page 25.
5. ^ "Q&A with Mahamadou Ouhoumoudou", Lutheran World Relief, 19 February 2009.
6. ^ "Niger unveils new government", AFP, 21 April 2011.
7. ^ "Le Chef de l'Etat signe un décret portant composition des membres du premier gouvernement de la 7ème République", Le Sahel, 23 April 2011 (French).