Kalla Ankourao
Kalla Ankourao is a Nigerien politician. A member of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS), he was Minister of Public Health from 1995 to 1996 and Minister of Equipment from 2011 to 2012.
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Political career
During the 1980s, Ankourao worked at the Ministry of Public Works and Urban Planning as Director of Urban Planning.[1]
Ankourao was elected to the National Assembly of Niger in the February 1993 parliamentary election[2] as a PNDS candidate in Maradi Department.[3] Following the January 1995 parliamentary election, he was appointed Minister of Public Health in the government named on February 25, 1995;[4] this government was overthrown in a military coup in January 1996. He was later elected to the National Assembly in the December 2004 parliamentary election as a PNDS candidate from Maradi Department[5] and became President of the PNDS Parliamentary Group during the parliamentary term that followed.[6]
As of the Fourth Ordinary Congress of the PNDS in September 2004, Ankourao is a member of the party's National Executive Committee as Second Deputy Secretary-General.[7]
After Mahamadou Issoufou won the January–March 2011 presidential election and took office as President on 7 April 2011, Ankourao was appointed to the government as Minister of Equipment on 21 April 2011.[8][9]
Ankourao served as Minister of Equipment for a little less than a year; he was dismissed from the government on 2 April 2012.[10] He was elected to the National Assembly in the February 2016 parliamentary election.[11]
References
- Sub-Saharan Africa Report, issue 1, number 7 (1985), page 85.
- "Afrique de l'Ouest - Niger - Cour suprême - 1993 - Arrêt no 93-10/cc du 18 mars 1993", droit.francophonie.org (in French).
- "Afrique de l'Ouest - Niger - Cour suprême - 1993 - Arrêt no 93-3/cc du 1er février 1993", droit.francophonie.org (in French).
- "GOUVERNEMENTS DU PRESIDENT MAHAMANE OUSMANE" Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine, Nigerien presidency website (in French).
- List of deputies by constituency, National Assembly website (2005 archive) (in French).
- Page on parliamentary groups, National Assembly website (2005 archive) (in French).
- "Comité Exécutif National issu du 4ème Congrès Ordinaire" Archived 2007-10-31 at the Wayback Machine, PNDS website (in French).
- "Le Chef de l'Etat signe un décret portant composition des membres du premier gouvernement de la 7ème République" Archived 2011-10-07 at the Wayback Machine, Le Sahel, 23 April 2011 (in French).
- "Niger unveils new government", AFP, 21 April 2011.
- Aboubacar Yacouba Barma, "Les raisons d’un si léger remaniement", ActuNiger, 2 April 2012 (in French).
- "Arrêt n° 012/CC/ME du 16 mars 2016", Constitutional Court of Niger, 16 March 2016, page 51.