Cheick Modibo Diarra
Cheick Modibo Diarra | |
|---|---|
| Prime Minister of Mali Acting | |
| In office 17 April 2012 – 11 December 2012 | |
| President | Dioncounda Traoré (Acting) |
| Preceded by | Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé |
| Succeeded by | Django Sissoko (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1952 (age 72–73) Nioro du Sahel, French Sudan (now Mali) |
| Political party | Rally for the Development of Mali |
| Alma mater | Pierre and Marie Curie University Howard University |
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.
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.