Boukary Adji (1939
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Niger
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ien politician. He served as Niger's
Prime Minister
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from 30 January 1996 to 21 December 1996.
Adji was born in
Tanout in
Zinder Department. He studied in
Poland
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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
Central Bank of West African States
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The BCEAO is active ...
(BCEAO) for Niger.
[ In the government named on 14 November 1983, he was appointed ]Minister of Finance
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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.
References
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
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