Hassoumi Massoudou is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs of Niger. Mr. Massaoudou also served in the government of Niger as Minister of Finance from October 2016 to January 2019, as Minister of National Defense in 2016, as Minister of the Interior from 2013 to 2016, and as Minister of Communication, Culture, Youth and Sports from 1993 to 1994. He has also been Director of the Cabinet of the President from 2011 to 2013, and he is one of the founding members of Nigerian Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya). .