Boukary Adji (1939
", ''Afrique Express'' .– 4 July 2018) was a

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ien politician. He served as Niger's

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

from 30 January 1996 to 21 December 1996. Adji was born in Tanout in Zinder Department. He studied in

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on a scholarship he received in 1963, then at the University of Abidjan and at the Center for Financial and Banking Studies in Paris. He was appointed as Director in the Ministry of Planning in the early 1970s and became the Director of the

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(BCEAO) for Niger. In the government named on 14 November 1983, he was appointed

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,"GOUVERNEMENTS DU PRESIDENT SEYNI KOUNTCHE"
, official Nigerien presidency website . in which position he remained until after the 1987 death of

Seyni Kountché Seyni Kountché (1 July 1931 – 10 November 1987) was a Nigerien military officer who led a 1974 Nigerien coup d'état, 1974 coup d'état that deposed the government of Niger's first Heads of State of Niger, president, Hamani Diori. He ruled th ...

. Later he served as Vice-Governor of the BCEAO. He was named Prime Minister after

Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara General Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara (9 May 1949 – 9 April 1999) was a Nigerien military officer and diplomat who ruled Niger from 1996 until his assassination. He seized and lost power in military coups. Baré Maïnassara, a Maouri, a subgro ...

seized power in a January 1996 military coup. He died in the Niger capital

Niamey Niamey () is the capital and largest city of Niger. As the Niamey Urban Community (, CUN), it is a Regions of Niger, first-level division of Niger, surrounded by the Tillabéri Region, in the western part of the country. Niamey lies on the Nige ...

on 4 July 2018.

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1939 births 2018 deaths Ministers of council of Niger Prime ministers of Niger Finance ministers of Niger People from Zinder Region 20th-century Nigerien politicians {{Niger-politician-stub