Madieng Khary Dieng

Madieng Khary Dieng (21 November 1932 – 27 November 2020) was a Senegalese politician, who was a member of the Socialist Party. He served as a government minister several times during Abdou Diouf's presidency.

Madieng Khary Dieng
Minister of the Interior
In office
April 1991  May 1993
Preceded byFamara Ibrahima Sagna
Succeeded byDjibo Leyti Kâ
Minister of the Armed Forces
In office
June 1993  March 1995
Preceded byMédoune Fall
Succeeded byCheikh Hamidou Kane Mathiara
Ambassador to Gambia
In office
1996–1998
Preceded byMoctar Kébé
Succeeded byMamadou Diop
Personal details
Born(1932-11-21)November 21, 1932
Coki, Senegal
Died27 November 2020 (aged 88)
Rabat, Morocco
NationalitySenegalese
Political partySocialist Party
ProfessionCivil administrator

Biography

Madieng Khary Dieng was born in Coki on 21 November 1932. He continued his studies in Paris where he was auditor at the Institute of Higher Studies from 1964 to 1966 and at Dakar, at the National School of Administration.[1]

On 8 April 1991 he was appointed Minister of the Interior. In his memoirs, Prime Minister Habib Thiam described him as an "excellent interior minister".[2] Both have had to face a particularly tense situation at the time of the election of 9 May 1993 and assassination of Vice President of the Constitutional Council Babacar Sèye, a few days later, on 15 May 1993.[3]

Madieng Khary Dieng became Armed Forces Minister in the second government of Habib Thiam formed in June 1993. On 8 July 1993, in Ziguinchor, he signed an important cease-fire agreement with Augustin Diamacoune Senghor, Secretary General of the MFDC.[4] On 15 March 1995, Cheikh Hamidou Kane Mathiara succeeded him to the Ministry of Armed Forces.

After leaving the government, Madieng Khary Dieng was appointed Ambassador to Gambia, a position he held from 1996 to 1998.[5] General Mamadou Diop succeeded him.

A neighborhood in the city of Guédiawaye was named in his honor.

Dieng died on 27 November 2020.[6]

References

  1. Translations on Sub-Saharan Africa, United States. Joint Publications Research Service, no.1137-1143, 1972, p. 101
  2. Habib Thiam, Par devoir et par amitié : essai, Éd. du Rocher, Monaco, Paris, 2001, p.155 ISBN 2-268-04009-7
  3. Abdou Latif Coulibaly, Sénégal, affaire Me Sèye : un meurtre sur commande, L'Harmattan, 2005, 211 p. ISBN 2-7475-9892-6
  4. Centre d'étude d'Afrique noire (Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux), L'Afrique politique, Karthala, Paris, 1994, p.72
  5. "Embassy of Senegal in Gambia". Archived from the original on 2004-12-31. Retrieved 2016-09-24.
  6. Décès de l’ancien ministre de l’Intérieur Madieng Khary Dieng (in French)

Bibliography

  • Babacar Ndiaye and Waly Ndiaye, Présidents et ministres de la République du Sénégal, Dakar, 2006 (2nd ed.), p. 147
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