Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé
| Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé | |
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| Prime Minister of Mali | |
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In office 3 April 2011 – 22 March 2012 |
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| President | Amadou Toumani Touré |
| Preceded by | Modibo Sidibé |
| Succeeded by | Cheick Modibo Diarra (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 January 1948 Timbuktu, French Sudan (now Mali) |
| Political party | Independent |
| Alma mater | National School of Administration, Bamako |
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé (born 4 January 1948) was the Prime Minister of Mali from 2011 to 2012, the first woman to be appointed to the position in the country's history. She was announced to the position by decree on 3 April 2011, replacing Modibo Sidibé. On 22 March 2012, following the suspension of the constitution in the 2012 Malian coup d'état, she was removed from office and reported to be detained by junta forces.
Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé was born in Timbuktu, Mali on 4 January 1948. Her family name is Sidibé but she later took her husband's family name Cissé as well. Sidibé Cissé was educated at a Goundam primary school, and later received her baccalauréat in 1970. From there she received a degree in Civil Administration from the Malian National School for Administration (EDA) in Bamako.
From 1974 to 1989 Sidibé Cissé worked as a civil servant in the Ministry of Oversight for State Companies and Societies (Ministère de Tutelle des Sociétés et Entreprises d’Etat du Mali), becoming assistant to the Minister from 1987. During this period, Sidibé Cissé studied at universities and foundations throughout West Africa, and farther afield in France, Canada, Belgium, and Italy.
In the interim return to democratic rule in 1991, Sidibé Cissé was named Special Adviser to the President (the interim Presidency then held by coup leader Amadou Toumani Touré) and was named Minister of Planning and International Cooperation of the transitional government (August 1991-June 1992). From May 1992 to June 1992, she also was Minister of Agriculture. Sidibé Cissé served from August 1993 to November 2000 as Executive Secretary of the intergovernmental Interstate Committee on the Fight Against Desertification in the Sahel ( Cilss -- Comité Inter-Etats de lutte contre la sécheresse au Sahel) based in Ouagadougou. In August 2001 Sidibé Cissé was again named Special Counselor to the President, this time following Amadou Toumani Touré election to that office. From March to June 2002, Sidibé Cissé was again appointed to Ministerial posting, becoming Minister of Rural Development. In 2003, Sidibé Cissé was named the president of the administrative council of Mali's government Tobacco corporation, SONTAM (Société nationale des tabacs et allumettes du Mali).
On 30 March 2011 Amadou Toumani Touré announced that his Prime Minister Modibo Sidibé was stepping down and dissolving the government. Sidibé Cissé's appointment as PM was read out as "Decree No. 2011-173 PRM" on state television during the evening of 3 April. She is the first female Prime Minister of Mali, and the second Prime Minister of President Amadou Toumani Touré's second and final term.
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