Cheick Modibo Diarra

Cheick Modibo Diarra (born 1952) is a Malian astrophysicist, businessman, and politician who was acting Prime Minister of Mali from April 2012 to December 2012.

Cheick Modibo Diarra
Prime Minister of Mali
Acting
In office
17 April 2012  11 December 2012
PresidentDioncounda Traoré (Acting)
Preceded byCissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé
Succeeded byDjango Sissoko (Acting)
Personal details
Born1952 (age 7172)
Nioro du Sahel, French Sudan
(now Mali)
Political partyRally for the Development of Mali
Alma materPierre and Marie Curie University
Howard University

On 11 December 2012, Diarra presented his resignation on state television in a broadcast at 4 a.m. local time, hours after soldiers who led the 2012 Malian coup d'état arrested him at his home in Bamako.

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