Aïchatou Mindaoudou

Ms. Aïchatou Mindaoudou Souleymane (born 14 October 1959) is a Nigerien diplomat, an international and constitutional lawyer who served as the United Nations' Special Representative for Côte d'Ivoire and Head of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) from 2013 to 2017. Previously she was Deputy Joint Special Representative (Political) in the African Union and United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur Sudan (UNAMID) from 2011 to 2012. From 2012 to 2013 she was the Acting Joint Special Representative and the Acting Joint Chief Mediator in UNAMID.

Ms. Aïchatou Mindaoudou served in the Government of Niger as Minister of Social Development from 1995 to 1996; subsequently she was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2001 to 2010.

Since 2017, she is a senior independent international consultant and she founded Ipiti Consulting.

== Career in national politics ==

In the first government of Prime Minister Hama Amadou, named on 25 February 1995, Mindaoudou was Minister of Social Development, Population and the Advancement of Women. This government was ousted in a military coup on 27 January 1996.

After another coup in April 1999, Mindaoudou was named Minister...