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Idé Oumarou

Died in 2002

Idé Oumarou was born in 1937 in N'Dounga, in the department of Kollo, and died on 12 February 2002 in Niamey. Trained at the William Ponty school in Dakar and then in Paris, he was a journalist at the ministry of information, directed the state newspaper Le Niger from 1961 to 1963, then national information until 1972, before taking over the direction of posts and telecommunications. In the wake of the 1974 coup, Seyni Kountché entrusted him with his cabinet; he was subsequently ambassador to the United Nations, minister of Foreign Affairs, then secretary general of the Organisation of African Unity from 1985 to 1989.

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