Ali Barraud

Ali Barraud N'Goni (January 31, 1918 – October 11, 2015)^[1][2] was a Burkinabé politician who served as Minister of Public Health and Population for Upper Volta.^[3] He is the first medical officer in Bobo-Dioulasso, before he join the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain Liberation Movement ( RDA) in 1950.^[4] He resigned his position on January 22, 1974.^[5] He was involved in the 1948 founding of the Voltaic Democratic Party (PDV),^[6] which joined with the Social Party for the Emancipation of the African Masses (PSEMA) in 1956 to form the Unified Democratic Party (PDU) electoral alliance.^[7] From 1957 to 1959 he served as a member of the delegation of Upper Volta to the Grand Council of French Western Africa.^[8] In 1971 he was elected Vice-Chairman of the Executive Board of the World Health Organization.^[9]