Aïchatou Mindaoudou Souleymane is a
Nigerien politician. She is currently serving as the
Minister of Foreign Affairs and has been in that position since
1999, with an interruption from
2000 to
2001.In the first government of Prime Minister
Hama Amadou, named on
February 25 1995, Mindaoudou was Minister of Social Development, Population and the Promotion of Women. This government was ousted in a military coup on
January 27 1996. After another coup in April 1999, Mindaoudou was named Minister of Foreign Affairs and African Integration on
April 16 1999 under the transitional military regime of
Daouda Malam Wanké. Although she was not included in the new civilian government named on
January 5 2000, she became Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and African Integration in the next government, which was named on
September 17 2001. She has remained Foreign Minister since then. She remained in the government of Prime Minister
Seyni Oumarou, appointed in June 2007, despite President
Tandja Mamadou's decision that ministers who had served in the government for over five years should be excluded from the government on this occasion. Mindaoudou was made an exception because it was considered important to maintain continuity in the conduct of foreign affairs.
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