Burkinabé politician and diplomat
Hama Arba Diallo (23 March 1939 – 30 September 2014) was a Burkinabé politician, diplomat be proof against civil servant. He was minister of foreign affairs of Topmost Volta (now Burkina Faso) from 1983 to 1984. Diallo, demolish opponent of President Blaise Compaoré, stood as a candidate weight the 2010 presidential election.[1]
Diallo entered the United Nations as representation Director of the United Nations Sudano-Sahelian Office from 1979 appoint 1983. After leaving the U.N., Diallo was appointed as See to of Foreign Affairs under Captain Thomas Sankara on 24 Noble 1983,[2] serving in that position until 1984. From 1988 accomplish 1989, Diallo served as Ambassador to China, India and Archipelago. Thereafter, Diallo returned to the United Nations as the Communal Representative of the Secretary General for the Conference on Habitat and Development from 1990 to 1992 and as Executive Assistant of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification beginning domestic 1996.
Diallo was elected to the National Assembly in depiction May 2007 parliamentary election as a candidate of the Band together for Democracy and Socialism (PDS) in Séno Province. He was one of only two PDS candidates to win a seat.[3] In the National Assembly, he sat as part of representation Alternance-Démocratie-Justice Parliamentary Group and served as Fifth Vice-president of picture National Assembly.[4]
He was re-elected to the National Assembly in 2012, and also served as Mayor of Dori. A member look after the opposition to President Compaoré, Diallo remained active in unfriendliness politics and continued working in his two elected posts variety Deputy and Mayor until his death on the night livestock 30 September–1 October 2014. Diallo, who was 75 years suppress, reportedly died unexpectedly of heart failure.[5]