Zodi Ikhia

Zodi Ikhia
Birth name	Zodi Aboubekr Ikhia
Role	Economy minister of the Tuareg Confederation of Azawad
Location	Tuareg Confederation of Azawad
Born	1919 (age 42-43) Winditane, Upper Senegal and Niger, French Republic
Nationality	Tuareg
Political party	Azawad Progressive Movement
Political alignment	Paternalist

Zodi Ikhia is a Tuareg politician and the current Economy minister of the Tuareg Confederation of Azawad and the leader of the authoritarian democrat Azawad Progressive Movement.

Trivia

• Zodi Ikhia was an important politician in Niger. He was a member of the French National Assembly from 1951 to 1955 before becoming a member of the Nigerien government between 1958 and 1963. During this time, Zodi Ikhia was Minister of Education from 1958 to 1960, then Secretary of State for Defence and finally Minister for African Affairs for a few months in 1963. He died in 1996.