Seydou Elimane Diarra (23 November 1933 – 19 July 2020) was an Ivorian politician, who served as the
Prime Minister
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Brazil
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and was President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Ivory Coast. After the December 1999 military coup, he was appointed Minister of State for Planning, Development, and Government Cooperation on 4 January 2000, under transitional President
Robert Guéï
Robert Guéï (; 16 March 1941 – 19 September 2002) was the military ruler of the Ivory Coast from 24 December 1999 to 26 October 2000.
Biography
Guéï was born in Kabakouma, a village in the western Man Department, and was a member o ...
. He was subsequently Prime Minister from May 2000 to October 2000.
He was again appointed Prime Minister in February 2003 as part of a deal to end the 2002-2003 civil war, because he was widely considered to be a neutral figure; however, many supporters of President
Laurent Gbagbo
Koudou Laurent Gbagbo , FPI website . ( African Union mediators announced that Diarra was to be replaced by
Seydou Diarra was originally from the north of Côte d'Ivoire and a Muslim. A scholarship holder from the French Republic, he studied in La Rochelle and then obtained a diploma in agricultural engineering from the École nationale supérieure agronomique de Montpellier.
Death
Diarra died in
Abidjan
Abidjan ( , ; N’ko: ߊߓߌߖߊ߲߬) is the economic capital of the Ivory Coast. As of the 2021 census, Abidjan's population was 6.3 million, which is 21.5 percent of overall population of the country, making it the sixth most populous city p ...