Mame Madior Boye [SEP] date of birth
Mame Madior Boye
Mame Madior Boye (born 1940) was Prime Minister of Senegal from 2001 to 2002. She was the first female holder of that position.
Background and career.
Boye was born to a family of lawyers in Saint-Louis, and like her three brothers she was educated as a lawyer in Dakar and Paris. Her father was a clerk, then a bailiff. She graduated from Faidherbe High School in her hometown. In 1963, she enrolled at the Faculty of Legal and Economic Sciences at
on 1 October 2002, along with Prime Minister Mame Madior Boye. He was succeeded by Bécaye Diop.
Following a court action undertaken in 2003 by 22 families who had lost relatives in the tragedy, an international arrest warrant was issued on 12 September 2008 by a judge in Évry (Essonne) for Mame Madior Boye, Youba Sabou and seven other people, but the warrants for the two former ministers were annulled on 16 June 2009 by the of the Court of Appeal of Paris, on account of the roles that they