Madieng Khary Dieng (21 November 1932 – 27 November 2020) was a
Senegalese politician, who was a member of the
Socialist Party. He served as a government minister several times during
's presidency.
Biography
Madieng Khary Dieng was born in
Coki
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on 21 November 1932. He continued his studies in Paris where he was auditor at the Institute of Higher Studies from 1964 to 1966 and at
Dakar, at the National School of Administration.
On 8 April 1991 he was appointed
Minister of the Interior
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. In his memoirs, Prime Minister
described him as an "excellent interior minister". Both have had to face a particularly tense situation at the time of the election of 9 May 1993 and assassination of Vice President of the Constitutional Council
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, a few days later, on 15 May 1993.
Madieng Khary Dieng became Armed Forces Minister in the second government of
formed in June 1993. On 8 July 1993, in
Ziguinchor
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, he signed an important cease-fire agreement with
Augustin Diamacoune Senghor
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, Secretary General of the
MFDC. On 15 March 1995,
Cheikh Hamidou Kane Mathiara
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succeeded him to the Ministry of Armed Forces.
After leaving the government, Madieng Khary Dieng was appointed Ambassador to Gambia, a position he held from 1996 to 1998. General
Mamadou Diop succeeded him.
A neighborhood in the city of
Guédiawaye
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...
was named in his honor.
Dieng died on 27 November 2020.
Décès de l’ancien ministre de l’Intérieur Madieng Khary Dieng
References
Bibliography
*Babacar Ndiaye and Waly Ndiaye, ''Présidents et ministres de la République du Sénégal'', Dakar, 2006 (2nd ed.), p. 147
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1932 births
2020 deaths
Socialist Party of Senegal politicians
Defense ministers of Senegal
Interior ministers of Senegal
Military of Senegal
Ambassadors of Senegal to the Gambia