Modibo Sidibé
{{Short description|Malian politician}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Modibo Sidibé
|image = Modibo Sidibe.jpg
|office = Prime Minister of Mali
|president = Amadou Toumani Touré
|term_start = 28 September 2007
|term_end = 3 April 2011
|predecessor = Ousmane Issoufi Maïga
|successor = Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé
|office1 = Minister for Foreign Affairs
|primeminister1 = Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
Mandé Sidibé
Modibo Keita
|term_start1 = 16 September 1997
|term_end1 = 9 June 2002
|predecessor1 = Dioncounda Traoré
|successor1 = Lassana Traoré
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1952|11|7|df=y}}
|birth_place = Bamako, French Sudan
{{small|(now Mali)}}
|death_date =
|death_place =
|party = FARE AN KA WULI
}}
Modibo Sidibé (born 7 November 1952) is a Malian politician who was Prime Minister of Mali from September 2007 to April 2011.[http://www.essor.gov.ml/jour/cgi-bin/view_article.pl?id=16751 "Modibo Sidibé, nouveau Premier ministre : Beaucoup d'expérience, une grosse capacité de travail"] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20080301071540/http://www.essor.gov.ml/jour/cgi-bin/view_article.pl?id=16751 |date=2008-03-01 }}, L'Essor, number 16,043, 1 October 2007 {{in lang|fr}}.
Career
Sidibé, who was born in Bamako,[http://www.primature.gov.ml/index.php?option=com_ministere&details=oui&id=1 CV at government website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090322200835/http://www.primature.gov.ml/index.php?option=com_ministere&details=oui&id=1 |date=2009-03-22 }} {{in lang|fr}}. 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 from 1991 to 1992; in the latter position, he held the rank of Minister.
=As Prime Minister=
Under President Alpha Oumar Konaré, 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.[http://www.essor.gov.ml/cgi-bin/view_article.pl?id=1892 "Nomination du nouveau chef du gouvernement et du nouveau Secrétaire général de la présidence: La garde rapprochée se met en place"]{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, L'Essor, June 11, 2002 {{in lang|fr}}. He served as Secretary-General of the Presidency until he was appointed prime minister by Touré on 28 September 2007.[https://archive.today/20110816215926/http://www.afriquenligne.fr/actualites/politique/modibo-sidibe-nomme-premier-ministre-du-mali-200709289591/ "Modibo Sidibé nommé Premier ministre du Mali"], Panapress, September 28, 2007 {{in lang|fr}}. His government was named on 3 October.[http://www.essor.gov.ml/jour/cgi-bin/view_article.pl?id=16811 "Décret N° 07-383/P-RM du 3 octobre 2007"]{{dead link|date=February 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}, L'Essor, number 16,046, October 4, 2007 {{in lang|fr}}.
Sidibé resigned on 30 March 2011.[https://archive.today/20130125005720/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ihKWXDnQFRMhH9Gu6XcVPI4xi_XA?docId=CNG.1c55d652e61ad9ac029d2769b1927b97.5d1 "Mali PM resigns: government sources"], AFP, 30 March 2011. His replacement was Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, who was appointed Mali's first female prime minister late on 3 April 2011.{{Cite web|url=http://rulers.org/2011-04.html|title=April 2011}} Sidibé was expected to stand as a candidate in the April 2012 presidential election,[http://www.africaintelligence.com/AEM/who-s-who/2011/04/20/amadou-cisse%2C89437728-ART-login "Amadou Cisse"], Africa Energy Intelligence N°650, 21 April 2011. 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.[http://www.jeuneafrique.com/Article/ARTJAJA2644p008-009.xml2/mali-election-presidentielle-premier-ministre-amadou-toumani-touremali-modibo-sidibe-leve-un-coin-du-voile-sur-ses-ambitions.html "Mali : Modibo Sidibé lève un coin du voile sur ses ambitions"], Jeune Afrique, 16 September 2011 {{in lang|fr}}.
Family
He is the brother of economist Mandé Sidibé, who was also Prime Minister for a time.{{cite news|first=Amy|last=Longdorf|title=Former Malian PM Mande Sidibe dies|url=http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/former-malian-pm-mande-sidibe-dies-2009082633990.html|work=PanaPress|publisher=Afrique en ligne|date=2009-08-26|access-date=2009-08-28|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090828092509/http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/former-malian-pm-mande-sidibe-dies-2009082633990.html|archive-date=2009-08-28}}
References
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Category:Prime ministers of Mali
Category:Malian police officers