Salif Diallo

Salif Diallo (b. May 9, 1957, Ouahigouya, Yatenga) is a politician from Burkina Faso. He is the vice-president of the Congress for Democracy and Progress. http://www.petiteacademie.gov.bf/Personnalite/Personnalite.asp?CodePersonnalite=100] Diallo was expelled from the University of Ouagadougou for having organized strikes and protests. He then belonged to the Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party. In he went on to Dakar, Senegal, to continue his Master of Law studies there. At the University of Dakar, he and other students formed a Committee for the Defence of the Revolution. In 1985 he returned to Burkina Faso and joined the dissident and pro-Sankara splinter-faction of the PCRV, the Burkinabé Communist Group.http://www.lefaso.net/spip.php?article26418]

Diallo became Assistant Justice Minister in 1986. Diallo was active in the Committees for the Defence of the Revolution. 1987-1990 he was the director of the Cabinet of the President. 1989-1991 he was secretary of state of the Burkinabé presidency. In he served as Minister of Employment, Labour and Social Security. 1991-1995 Diallo was Minister of state in charge of the presidential missions. From 1995 to 1999 he was Minister of Environment and Water. 2002-2008 he was the Minister of Agriculture, Water and Fisheries Resources. [http://www.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/pays-zones-geo_833/burkina-faso_338/presentation-du-burkina-faso_942/composition-du-gouvernement_1607.html] He was dismissed from the national government on March 23, 2008. [http://www.lefaso.net/spip.php?article26210]

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