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Ibrahim Issa

Died in 1986

Ibrahim Issa was born in 1929 in Woro, in what is now the department of Gouré. After the regional school of Zinder and the upper primary school of Niamey, he joined the posts and telecommunications service in 1948, where he ran the radio station at Ouallam. A Sawaba activist, he was chief of staff to a minister under Djibo Bakary, then ran information and the state press from 1961 to 1963. Imprisoned under Hamani Diori, he then ran the Malbaza cement works and the Nigerien subsidiary of Texaco, before being arrested again in 1975. Released in 1978, he died on 21 February 1986 of an illness contracted in detention.

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