Mohamed Ben Omar

Biography Mohamed Ben Omar was born on 1 January 1965 in Tesker, Niger, located in the country's Zinder Region.

From 2000 to 2004, Omar was a professor of geography at the Lycée Franco-arabe LFA de Niamey.

From 2004 to 2007, he was a minister who was responsible for relations among higher-learning institutions. He served as Niger's Minister of Communication from 2007 to 2009, and was simultaneously a spokesperson for the government. Omar supported a constitutional amendment to let then-President Mamadou Tandja extend his second term in office by three years, but Tandja was overthrown by the military in February 2010 during the 2010 Nigerien coup d'état.

From April 15, 2016, Most recently, Omar served as Minister of Employment, Labor and Social Protection from 27 April 2017 until his death on 3 May 2020.

Additionally, Mohamed Ben Omar served President of the Nigerien Social Democratic Party (PSD), which he founded in 2015. On 5 May 2020, Télé Sahel, the national television broadcaster of Niger, announced that Mohamed Ben Omar had died as a result of COVID-19. His Social Democratic Party (PSD) also confirmed that Omar suffered from COVID-19 via WhatsApp.