Kalla Ankourao (born 1 January 1946Profile of Kalla Ankourao) is a Nigerien politician. A member of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS), he was Minister of Public Health from 1995 to 1996 and Minister of Equipment from 2011 to 2012.
Political career During the 1980s, Ankourao worked at the Ministry of Public Works and Urban Planning as Director of Urban Planning.Sub-Saharan Africa Report, issue 1, number 7 (1985), page 85.
Ankourao was elected to the National Assembly of Niger in the February 1993 parliamentary election, droit.francophonie.org . as a PNDS candidate in Maradi Department., droit.francophonie.org . Following the January 1995 parliamentary election, he was appointed Minister of Public Health in the government named on February 25, 1995;"GOUVERNEMENTS DU PRESIDENT MAHAMANE OUSMANE" , Nigerien presidency website . this government was overthrown in a military coup in January 1996. He was later elected to the National Assembly in the December 2004 parliamentary election as a PNDS candidate from Maradi DepartmentList of deputies by constituency, National Assembly website (2005 archive) . and became President of the PNDS Parliamentary Group during the parliamentary term that followed.Page on parliamentary groups, National Assembly website (2005 archive) .
As of the Fourth Ordinary Congress of the PNDS in September 2004, Ankourao is a member of the party's National Executive Committee as Second Deputy Secretary-General."Comité Exécutif National issu du 4ème Congrès Ordinaire" , PNDS website .
After Mahamadou Issoufou won the January–March 2011 presidential election and took office as President on 7 April 2011, Ankourao was appointed to the government as Minister of Equipment on 21 April 2011."Le Chef de l'Etat signe un décret portant composition des membres du premier gouvernement de la 7ème République" , Le Sahel, 23 April 2011 ., AFP, 21 April 2011.
Ankourao served as Minister of Equipment for a little less than a year; he was dismissed from the government on 2 April 2012.Aboubacar Yacouba Barma, "Les raisons d’un si léger remaniement" , ActuNiger, 2 April 2012 . He was elected to the National Assembly in the February 2016 parliamentary election."Arrêt n° 012/CC/ME du 16 mars 2016" , Constitutional Court of Niger, 16 March 2016, page 51.
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