Ousseini Hadizatou Yacouba
Ousseini Hadizatou Yacouba (born November 9, 1958) is a politician in Niger. Since 2013, she has served as the Deputy Chief of Staff to Mahamadou Issoufou, with the rank of minister. In April 2021, she was appointed Minister of Mines in the government of Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou. In July 2023, following the coup d'état, she was arrested and placed under house arrest by the military junta.
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[edit]- The Ministry is leading a program of improving knowledge of the mining potential, diversifying partners, improving governance and the increasing of the contribution of the extractive industries to the development of our country.
- The main advances made in the mining sector over the past two years have focused on improving the governance of the sector. In view of the significant challenges of the sector, the government has deemed it necessary to put in place a strategic framework that responds to new development challenges
- Secondly, Niger's mining code has been revised to take into account certain current concerns and improve the sector’s attractiveness; this is currently pending approvals.
- The ECOWAS Commission and the Government of the Republic of Niger are collaborating to organize the 3rd edition of the ECOWAS Mining and Petroleum Forum, ECOMOF 2021, to be held in Niamey from February 16-18, 2022. ECOMOF is the gathering of the highest government delegations from the fifteen member states of West Africa of ECOWAS: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
