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Amadou Bailo Diallo ( September 2, 1975 – February 4, 1999 ) was a 23-year-old Guinean immigrant in New York City who was shot and killed on February 4, 1999 by four New York City Police Department plain-clothed officers: Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon and Kenneth Boss, who fired a combined total of 41 shots, 19 of which struck Diallo, outside 1157 Wheeler Avenue in the Soundview section of The Bronx.
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* February 4, 1999 – Unarmed African immigrant Amadou Bailo Diallo is shot and killed by 4 New York City police officers, sparking massive protests against police brutality and racial profiling.
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* 1999 – Unarmed West African immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by four plainclothes New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race-relations in the city.
* Wyclef Jean compares Biko's horrific events to the ones of Amadou Diallo in his tribute song name " Diallo " on the album The Ecleftic: Two Sides of a Book.
* February 4 – Unarmed Guinean immigrant Amadou Diallo is shot dead by New York City police officers on an unrelated stake-out, inflaming race relations in the city.
They have also contributed tracks to political benefit albums, such as a live version of " Sunset on 32nd " for 1157 Wheeler Avenue: A Memorial for Amadou Diallo and " To the World " for the Rock Against Bush, Vol.
He continues to speak out against both the weakening of civil liberties and corrupt practices in law enforcement, such as the alleged cover-ups following Abner Louima's torture in 1997 and Amadou Diallo shooting in 1999.
* In 1999, the unarmed Amadou Diallo was shot and killed by 4 plainclothes officers on Wheeler and Westchester Avenues.
This period included the fatal shootings of Amadou Diallo and Sean Bell, and the Abner Louima incident.
" American Skin ( 41 Shots )" is a song written by Bruce Springsteen, inspired by the police shooting death of Amadou Diallo.
Critics argue, however, that the drop in crime came at the price of greater friction between police and some of the city's ethnic groups, and less concern for civil liberties, citing the Abner Louima and Amadou Diallo incidents.
* Amadou Diallo, L ’ éducation en milieu sooninké dans le cercle de Bakel: 1850-1914, Dakar, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, 1994, 36 p. ( Mémoire de DEA )
In December, 1999, similar venue changes occurred in the Amadou Diallo murder case in which the NYPD defendants ' trial was moved to Albany.
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Amadou Tidiane Tall ( born 22 June 1975 in Kadiogo ) is a Burkinabé football player who plays for Etoile Filante Ouagadougou.
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* March 22 – The President of Mali, Amadou Toumani Touré, is ousted in a coup d ' état after mutinous soldiers attack government offices.
The Mouride brotherhood was founded in 1883 in Senegal by Shaykh Aḥmadu Bàmba Mbàkke, commonly known as Amadou Bamba ( 1850 – 1927 ).
* The Mourides, the richest and most active, founded by marabout Cheikh Amadou Bamba ( 1850 – 1927 ) of French West Africa, now Senegal.
According to the late Robert Amadou ( 1924 – 2006 ), Pierre Plantard in 1953 was accused of selling degrees of esoteric orders for exorbitant sums.
Amadou Hampâté Bâ ( January or February 1901 in Bandiagara, Mali – May 15, 1991 in Abidjan, Côte d ' Ivoire ) was a Malian writer and ethnologist.
: Shaykhu Ahmadu ibn Muhammadu Lobbo, Ahmadu I, Cheikhou Amadou ) ( 1773 – 1845 ) was the founder of the Fula ( Peul in French ) Massina Empire in what is now the Mopti Region of Mali.
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Amadou was elected to the National Assembly in the February 1993 parliamentary election as an MNSD candidate in Niamey.
A special congress of the MNSD-Nassara held in Zinder on 21 February 2009 elected Prime Minister Oumarou to succeed Amadou as MNSD President.
In February 2011, Amadou & Mariam performed as one of the support acts for U2 during the Johannesburg and Cape Town legs of their U2 360 Tour.
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On March 26, 1991, after 4 days of intense anti-government rioting, a group of 17 military officers, led by former President Amadou Toumani Touré, arrested President Traoré and suspended the constitution.
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In the October 1999 National Assembly Election, the MNSD won 38 of the 83 seats, forming a government under Hama Amadou with the support of CDS-Rahama's 17 seats.
Amadou was again elected to the National Assembly in the 1999 parliamentary election as an MNSD candidate from Niamey, but left his seat to become Prime Minister on January 3, 2000.
In the 1999 parliamentary elections MERCI elected two MPs, Amadou Assouma and Sacca Moussèdikou Fikara.
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In 2002 Amadou Toumani Touré, a retired general who had been the leader of the military aspect of the 1991 democratic uprising, was elected.
Amadou was replaced by Seyni Oumarou, also of the president's MNSD-Nassara party, leading to infighting within a portion of the party still loyal to Amadou.
Amadou Bamba was a Muslim mystic and ascetic marabout, a spiritual leader who wrote tracts on meditation, rituals, work, and Qur ' anic study.
After World War I Amadou Bamba was awarded the prestigious French Légion d ' honneur for his help in recruiting soldiers from West Africa for the war.
Amadou Bamba was buried in 1927 at the great mosque in Touba, the holy city of Mouridism and the heart of the Mouride movement.
Sheikh Ibrahima Fall was one of the first of Amadou Bamba's disciples and one of the most illustrious.
The play was adapted for the stage by Marie-Helene Estienne from a book by Amadou Hampate Ba ( translated into English as A Spirit of Tolerance: The Inspiring Life of Tierno Bokar ).
He served there until he was named Prime Minister by Amadou Toumani Touré on June 9, 2002, after Touré took office following his victory in that year's presidential election, and his government was named on June 14.
Hama Amadou ( born 1950 ) is a Nigerien politician who was Prime Minister of Niger from 1995 to 1996 and again from 2000 to 2007.
Amadou is from the Kurtey, a Fula sub-group, and was raised in the Tillaberi Region, in the Niger River valley, north of Niamey.
During the regime of Seyni Kountché, Amadou was Director-General of the Office of Radio Broadcasting and Television of Niger ( ORTN ) from 1983 to 1985 and became Director of the Cabinet in 1985.
Following Kountché's death, Amadou was named Minister of Information under his successor, Ali Saibou, on July 15, 1988, serving until December 20, 1989.
At an MNSD congress held in November 1991, Amadou was elected as its Secretary-General, while Tandja Mamadou was elected as the President of the MNSD.
Amadou denied the charge and said that the arrest was political harassment and a means to distract the people.
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