375:, Associated Press, 28 February 1992. Une riche carrière internationale 1973–1978 Bureau régional de l’UNESCO BREDA (Dakar) ; 1978–1979 : Directeur des Affaires sociales et culturelles de l’OCAM (Bangui / Centrafrique) ; 1996–2001 (Francophonie et OIF) : représentant permanent du Chef de l’Etat, envoyé spécial (Comores) 2002 : envoyé spécial de l’Union Africaine puis de la Commission de l U A (Madagascar, Centrafrique, Tchad) ; 2003–2005 : représentant spécial de la Commission de l’Union Africaine en Cote d’Ivoire chef du bureau de liaison de l’UA en Côte d’Ivoire, représentant de l ’UA au comité de suivi des accords de Marcoussis. Une carrière politique mitigée Le Pr André Salifou a présidé la Conférence Nationale Souveraine puis le Haut Conseil de la République de 1991 à 1993 dans un contexte d’instabilité sociopolitique. Puis, il a siégé, à l’Assemblée Nationale au titre de son parti politique. Objectivement, on ne peut pas dire que l’universitaire et homme politique nigérien a connu un grand succès auprès des masses populaires. Il n’a pas échappé au sort réservé à d’autres universitaires africains qui se sont lancés dans la politique. En effet, en Afrique francophone, en dehors du Président malien le Pr Alpha Omar Konaré (Archéologue de son Etat) qui a utilisé un réseau d’associations pour créer son parti politique l’ADEMA, beaucoup d’universitaires qui ont essayé d’accéder au pouvoir par le biais d’un parti politique, n’ont pas pu accéder à la fonction suprême de Chef d’Etat. C’est le cas des professeur J. Ki-Zerbo (Burkina Faso), Cheikh Anta Diop (Sénégal) pour ne citer que ces deux exemples. Le Pr André Salifou (comme d’autres universitaires nigériens d’ailleurs) a connu cette amère expérience.
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Salifou was chosen as a neutral figure to be president of the Presidium of the National Conference, which was held from July 29, 1991, to November 3, 1991 and established a transitional government leading to democratic elections. At the Conference, he was elected as president of the High Council of the Republic, which was created to function in a legislative role during the transitional period, which lasted from November 1991 to April 1993. In late February 1992 he was briefly kidnapped, along with the Interior Minister, Mohamed Moussa, by soldiers demanding back pay; he and Moussa were freed after the soldiers were promised that they would receive the pay.
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took office as president, he appointed
Salifou as special adviser to the president, with the rank of minister, on 20 April 2011. Salifou was to hold that post concurrently with his role as the president's personal representative to La Francophonie.
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seized power in a military coup on
January 27, 1996, Salifou was appointed Minister of State in charge of Higher Education and Research in the new transitional government named on February 1. Three months later, on May 5, Salifou was instead named
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Council of the Republic during the 1991–93 transitional period, briefly served as Minister of Foreign Affairs in 1996, and was an unsuccessful presidential candidate in 1999.
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November 19 to discuss "the conditions for the restoration of peace in the CAR". On February 13, 2003, he was designated as the special representative of Essy, who was by this time the interim chairman of the commission of the
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held later in the same month due to his role as president of the High
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