In 2002 Amadou Toumani Touré, a retired general who had been the leader of the military aspect of the 1991 democratic uprising, was elected.

In December 2004 Hama Amadou was again chosen as Prime Minister.

The Mouride brotherhood was founded in 1883 in Senegal by Amadou Bamba.

The Mouride brotherhood was founded in 1883 in Senegal by Shaykh Aḥmadu Bàmba Mbàkke, commonly known as Amadou Bamba ( 1850 – 1927 ).

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 ).

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.

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 was elected to the National Assembly in the February 1993 parliamentary election as an MNSD candidate in Niamey.

On January 2, 1998, Amadou was arrested for allegedly leading a plot to assassinate Maïnassara.

Amadou denied the charge and said that the arrest was political harassment and a means to distract the people.

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.

Beginning in April 1995, Ousmane refused to attend meetings of the Council of Ministers ; Amadou replaced parastatal managers in July despite Ousmane's objections, and Amadou attempted to assume the presidential role with regard to the Council of Ministers.

* 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.

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.

On 26 March 1991, after four days of intense anti-government rioting, a group of 17 military officers, led by current President Amadou Toumani Touré, arrested President Traoré and suspended the constitution.

* 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.

** In Mali, military officers led by Amadou Toumani Touré arrest President Moussa Traoré and suspend the constitution.

There is only one surviving photograph of Amadou Bamba, in which he wears a flowing white robe and his face is mostly covered by a scarf.

Amadou Bamba is considered a " renewer " ( mujaddid in Arabic ) of Islam by his followers, citing a hadith that implies that God will send renewers of the faith every 100 years.

* The Mourides, the richest and most active, founded by marabout Cheikh Amadou Bamba ( 1850 – 1927 ) of French West Africa, now Senegal.

* 2004: Tierno Bokar after Vie et enseignement de Tierno Bokar-Le sage de Bandiagara by Amadou Hampâté Bâ, with Sotigui Kouyaté

* 2009: 11 and 12 after Vie et enseignement de Tierno Bokar-Le Sage de Bandiagara by Amadou Hampâté Bâ

In another election held in January 1995, an opposition alliance, primarily composed of the MNSD and the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism ( PNDS ), won a majority of seats, resulting in cohabitation between the government, led by Amadou, and President Mahamane Ousmane.

Amadou and Ousmane came into sharp conflict with one another, and the political system became paralyzed by the dispute.

On January 27, 1996, a military coup led by Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara ousted both Amadou and Ousmane, and they were both placed under house arrest for several months.

Amadou publicly claimed that the charges were a " political plot " by portions of his own party.

* 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.

Still another in Thienaba, near Thies, was founded by the disciple of a famous marabout of Fouta, Amadou Sekhou.

* Négritude: Naissance et expansion du concept a documentary by Nathalie Fave et Jean-Baptiste Fave, with the interventions of Amadou Lamine Sall, Racine Senghor, Lylian Kesteloot, Jean-Louis Roy, Jacqueline Lemoine, Gérard Chenêt, Victor Emmanuel Cabrita, Nafissatou Dia Diouf, Amadou Ly, Youssoufa Bâ, Raphaël Ndiaye, Alioune Badara Bèye, Hamidou Dia, Georges Courrèges, Baba Diop ; Maison Africaine de la Poésie Internationale, Shoot at Sénégal in 2005, 56 ' ( DVD ): first minutes online

A special congress of the MNSD-Nassara held in Zinder on 21 February 2009 elected Prime Minister Oumarou to succeed Amadou as MNSD President.

Several musical themes and clips from that album also appear on Amadou & Mariam's Chao-produced Dimanche à Bamako, which were being produced at approximately the same time.

Ousmane rejected this and appointed Amadou Cissé, also an MNSD member, as prime minister, but the parliamentary majority would not accept Cissé.

Amadou submitted his government's resignation immediately afterward ; he called the vote an " expression of democracy " while also noting that the government had survived past no-confidence votes.

Amadou also won a seat in the 2011 parliamentary election, and he was elected as President of the National Assembly on 19 April 2011.

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.

In 2005 she also performed at the Youssou N ' dour and Friends concert in Geneva, which was also a supporting gala against malaria, with Peter Gabriel, Amadou and Mariam, Gilberto Gil, Tiken Jah Fakoly and Neneh Cherry.

Bones will also feature on the new album for Amadou and Mariam as well as upcoming collaborations