Ali Barraud | |
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Born | Ali Barraud N'Goni January 31, 1918 |
Died | October 11, 2015 97) | (aged
Nationality | Burkinabé |
Occupation(s) | Doctor, politician |
Ali Barraud N'Goni (January 31, 1918 – October 11, 2015) [1] [2] was a Burkinabé politician who served as Minister of Public Health and Population for Upper Volta. [3] He is the first medical officer in Bobo-Dioulasso, before he join the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain Liberation Movement ( RDA) in 1950. [4] He resigned his position on January 22, 1974. [5] He was involved in the 1948 founding of the Voltaic Democratic Party (PDV), [6] which joined with the Social Party for the Emancipation of the African Masses (PSEMA) in 1956 to form the Unified Democratic Party (PDU) electoral alliance. [7] From 1957 to 1959 he served as a member of the delegation of Upper Volta to the Grand Council of French Western Africa. [8] In 1971 he was elected Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization. [9]