Aïssata Karidjo Mounkaïla (born 1942) is a

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in 1989 and remained a member until 1996. She served in the National Assembly again from 1999 to 2009.

Biography

Mounkaïla was born in 1942, the daughter of a civil servant. She attended the École Nationale d’Administration in Niamey, training to be a secretary. She entered the civil service in 1967. In 1977 she joined the Association of Nigerien Women and became its deputy secretary-general. She soon became secretary-general, a role she held for many years. A member of the

National Movement for the Development of Society The National Movement for the Development of Society (french: Mouvement National pour la Société du Développement, MNSD-Nassara) is a political party in Niger. Founded under the military government of the 1974–1990 period, it was the ruling ...

(MNSD), Mounkaïla was nominated as a candidate for the National Assembly in Niamey in the

1989 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1989. Africa * 1989 Beninese parliamentary election * 1989 Botswana general election * 1989 Equatorial Guinean presidential election * 1989 People's Republic of the Congo parliamentary election * ...

. With the MNSD being the sole legal party, she was elected unopposed, becoming one of the first group of five women elected to the National Assembly.Alice J. Kang (2015
''Bargaining for Women's Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy''
pp117–118 The National Assembly was subsequently dissolved in 1991. She was re-elected in multi-party elections in

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and

1995 File:1995 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: O.J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case, acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman from the 1994, year prior in "The Trial of the Century" in the United States; The ...

, but lost her seat in the

1996 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1996. * 1995–1996 Azerbaijani parliamentary election * 1996 Beninese presidential election * 1996 Comorian presidential election * 1996 New Zealand general election * 1996 Nicaraguan general electio ...

, which the MNSD boycotted. She returned to the National Assembly following the

1999 elections The following elections occurred in the year 1999. * 1999 electoral calendar Africa * 1999 Algerian presidential election * 1999 Botswana general election * 1999 Beninese parliamentary election * 1999 Central African Republic presidential elect ...

, when she was the only woman elected. She was re-elected in

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

, serving until 2009.Stéphanie Tesson & Monique Clesca (2013) ''100 femmes du Niger'', p197

References

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