Sanoussi Jackou

Sanoussi Tambari Jackou (born 1940) is a Nigerien politician and the President of the Nigerien Party for Self-Management (PNA-Al'ouma). He was Vice-President of the National Assembly of Niger from 1993 to 1994 and served in the government as Minister of State for Higher Education, Research, Technology, and African Integration later in the 1990s. He was a Deputy in the National Assembly from 2004 to 2010.

Jackou was born in Kornaka, located in what is now the Dakoro Department of Maradi Region. His father was a high caste Tuareg while his mother was Hausa. He worked in the civil service beginning in 1970.

Following a failed coup attempt against the regime of Seyni Kountché on March 15, 1976, Jackou was arrested on March 20. He was imprisoned for over 11 years; following Kountché's death, he was released on November 23, 1987. He returned to the civil service in March 1988.

In the early 1990s, Jackou was a founding member of the Democratic and Social Convention (CDS-Rahama). He was elected to the National Assembly in the February 1993 parliamentary election as a CDS candidate in Maradi constituency. Following the election, he served as Vice-President of the National Assembly of Niger from 1993 to 1994.

During the rule of Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara, Jackou joined the government as Minister of State for Higher Education, Research, Technology, and African Integration. As a result, he was expelled from the CDS, of which he had been the deputy leader; he formed a new party, the PNA-Aloumat, in early 1997, allying himself with President Maïnassara. In April 1998, however, he broke with Maïnassara, who was killed during a coup d'état one year later.

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