Modibo Sidibé (born 7 November 1952) is a

Mali Mali (; ), officially the Republic of Mali,, , ff, 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞥆𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 𞤃𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭, Renndaandi Maali, italics=no, ar, جمهورية مالي, Jumhūriyyāt Mālī is a landlocked country in West Africa. Mali ...

an politician who was

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from September 2007 to April 2011."Modibo Sidibé, nouveau Premier ministre : Beaucoup d'expérience, une grosse capacité de travail"
, ''L'Essor'', number 16,043, 1 October 2007 .

Career

Sidibé, who was born in

Bamako Bamako ( bm, ߓߡߊ߬ߞߐ߬ ''Bàmakɔ̌'', ff, 𞤄𞤢𞤥𞤢𞤳𞤮 ''Bamako'') is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2009 population of 1,810,366 and an estimated 2022 population of 2.81 million. It is located on t ...

,CV at government website
. was a police chief before serving as a technical adviser to the Ministry delegated to National Defense from 1986 to 1989; he was then the chief of staff (''chef de cabinet'') of the same ministry from 1989 to 1991. He was briefly the Director of the Cabinet of the Minister Delegate for Internal Security in 1991, then Director of the Cabinet of transitional military leader

Amadou Toumani Touré Amadou Toumani Touré (4 November 19489 November 2020) was a Malian politician. He supervised Mali's first multiparty elections as chairman of the transitional government (1991–1992), and later became the second democratically-elected Presiden ...

from 1991 to 1992; in the latter position, he held the rank of Minister. He held the rank of Inspector-General of Police.

As Prime Minister

Under President

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, Sidibé was named Minister for Health, Solidarity and the Elderly in April 1993. He remained in this position until he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation on 16 September 1997. After nearly five years as Foreign Minister, he was named Secretary-General of the Presidency (with the rank of Minister) by Amadou Toumani Touré on 9 June 2002, following Touré's election as President."Nomination du nouveau chef du gouvernement et du nouveau Secrétaire général de la présidence: La garde rapprochée se met en place"
''L'Essor'', June 11, 2002 . He served as Secretary-General of the Presidency until he was appointed Prime Minister by Touré on 28 September 2007."Modibo Sidibé nommé Premier ministre du Mali"
Panapress, September 28, 2007 . His government was named on 3 October. Sidibé resigned on 30 March 2011. His replacement was

Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé (4 January 1948 – 6 November 2021) was a Malian politician and the Prime Minister of Mali at the time of the 2012 Malian coup d'état. She was the first female prime minister in the country's history. She was ann ...

, who was appointed Mali's first female Prime Minister late on 3 April 2011. Sidibé was expected to stand as a candidate in the April 2012 presidential election, but in the months that followed he said nothing to confirm the speculation. He met with President Touré on 6 September 2011 to tell Touré that he was resigning from his rank as Inspector-General of Police; given that it was legally necessary for him to resign that rank at least six months before the election in order to stand as a presidential candidate, the move was viewed as an indication of his plans."Mali : Modibo Sidibé lève un coin du voile sur ses ambitions"
''Jeune Afrique'', 16 September 2011 .

Family

He is the brother of

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, who was also Prime Minister for a time.

References

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