sentences:  Abdou—his surname—was born in Kouré, Niger in 1927.Under French colonial rule he was son of an appointed local chief, or "Chef du Canton", educated at the elite École normale supérieure William Ponty in Dakar and later studied Medicine at the Paris Faculty of Medicine, graduating in 1956, and working first at the Hospital of the Seine  in Paris, and then becoming chief Pharmacist at National Hospital (Niamey) 
  
  In 1959, Abdou was appointed Cabinet director to Niger's first Minister of Health Diallo Boubakar, and in 1962 was appointed Ambassador of Niger to the United States, Canada, and the United Nations.In 1964 he moved to Germany, where he was Niger's Ambassador to West Germany, Austria, the Benelux and Scandinavian nations, and the European Economic Community.