{"id":1439,"date":"2020-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1439"},"modified":"2020-06-12T14:39:21","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:39:21","slug":"mohamed-ben-omar-politician-teacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/personmatters.com\/Remembering_Covid_19_Victims\/?p=1439","title":{"rendered":"Mohamed Ben Omar, politician & teacher"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mohamed Ben Omar a Nigerien politician and teacher died on 3 May 2020 at National Hospital in Niamey at the age of 55.\n<\/p>\n

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Omar served as a government minister in several cabinets, most recently as Minister of Employment, Labor and Social Protection from April 2017 until his death on 2 May 2020. Omar also founded the Nigerien Social Democratic Party (PSD) in 2015.\n<\/p>\n

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Mohamed Ben Omar was born on 1 January 1965 in Tesker, Niger, located in the country’s Zinder Region.\n<\/p>\n

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From 2000 to 2004, Omar was a professor of geography at the Lyc\u00e9e Franco-arabe LFA de Niamey.\n<\/p>\n

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From 2004 to 2007, he was a minister who was responsible for relations among higher-learning institutions. He served as Niger’s Minister of Communication from 2007 to 2009, and was simultaneously a spokesperson for the government.\n<\/p>\n

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Omar supported a constitutional amendment to let then-President Mamadou Tandja extend his second term in office by three years, but Tandja was overthrown by the military in February 2010 during the 2010 Nigerien coup d’\u00e9tat.\n<\/p>\n

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From 14 November 2009 to 18 February 2010, Omar was the Fourth Vice-President of the National Assembly of the 6th Republic. From March 2011 to April 2016, he was Fourth Vice-President of the National Assembly of the 7th Republic.\n<\/p>\n

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From April 15, 2016, to April 2017, Omar served as Minister of Higher Education, Research and Innovation. Most recently, Omar served as Minister of Employment, Labor and Social Protection from 27 April 2017 until his on 2 May 2020.\n<\/p>\n

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Additionally, Mohamed Ben Omar served President of the Nigerien Social Democratic Party (PSD), which he founded in 2015. Omar allied the PSD with President Mahamadou Issoufou’s Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism party. Prior to establishing the PDS, Omar was a member of the Rally for Democracy and Progress (RDP).\n<\/p>\n

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On 5 May 2020, T\u00e9l\u00e9 Sahel, the national television broadcaster of Niger, announced that Mohamed Ben Omar had died as a result of COVID-19. His Social Democratic Party (PSD) also confirmed that Omar suffered from COVID-19 via Whatsapp. Omar was buried in a cemetery in Niamey.\n<\/p>\n

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