# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ide-oumarou
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:24:02.161Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ide-oumarou"
name: "Idé Oumarou"
slug: "ide-oumarou"
description: "Ide Oumarou was a Nigerien diplomat, government minister, and journalist. He served as ambassador to the United Nations between 1980 and 1983. He then served as the foreign minister between 1983 and 1985 and was secretary-general of the Organisation of African Unity between 1985 and 1988. He was educated at the Ecole William Ponty in Dakar and IHEOM in Paris. He was an editor and journalist at the Niger Ministry of Information, serving as editor of state paper Le Niger from 1961 to 1963. He became director general of Information from 1963 to 1972, and then became director of Posts and Telecommunication for the Ministry. Following the 1974 Nigerien Coup d'état, he became cabinet chief and assistant to Military Head of State Seyni Kountche, becoming a particularly close adviser."
tagline: "Nigerien politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Id%C3%A9_Oumarou.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1937"
deathDate: "2002-02-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.89
  momentum:             5.333333333333333
  historical:           8.341397333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Id%C3%A9_Oumarou"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A3%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "ايد أومارو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "ايد اومارو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id%C3%A9_Oumarou"
    title: "Idé Oumarou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ide_Oumarou"
    title: "Ide Oumarou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ff.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ide_Oumarou"
    title: "Ide Oumarou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id%C3%A9_Oumarou"
    title: "Idé Oumarou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id%C3%A9_Oumarou"
    title: "Idé Oumarou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ide_Oumarou"
    title: "Ide Oumarou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ide_Oumarou"
    title: "Ide Oumarou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4021998"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump