Mahamadou Issoufou

While such immediate political manoeuvres play out Guterres has announced that he and AU Commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat have asked Niger's former President Mahamadou Issoufou to lead a new Independent High Level Panel on Security and Development in the Sahel...

The military has been expanded to around 30 000 today he said from 11 000 when the Parti nigérien pour la démocratie et le socialisme took power in 2011 under his predecessor Mahamadou Issoufou...

President Bazoum makes no apologies for aligning with western governments as a key security partner a policy established by his friend and predecessor as president Mahamadou Issoufou (AC Vol 59 No 8 Issoufou under fire)...

Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum was elected last year as the hand-picked successor to President Mahamadou Issoufou...

Bazoum is well-connected having been a key architect of Niger's Western-allied security strategy as foreign and then interior minister under President Mahamadou Issoufou (AC Vol 61 No 25 Dauphin goes to the polls)...

The provisional results now challenged by Ousmane at the constitutional court were much as expected: he dominated in opposition strongholds – Niamey and the surrounding region Tillabéri – while Bazoum achieved big majorities in his native east (Diffa) and the north (Agadez) and secured a crushing triumph in Tahoua home region of his ally the retiring President Mahamadou Issoufou...

With the 27 December first round of the presidential election approaching fast Mohamed Bazoum – who spent 10 years as President Mahamadou Issoufou's right-hand man – is in full campaign mode...

On 23 July a procession of regional heads of state gathered in Bamako: President Muhammadu Buhari (Nigeria) Mahamadou Issoufou (Niger) Nana Akufo-Addo (Ghana) Alassane Ouattara (Côte d'Ivoire) and Macky Sall (Senegal)...

France's President Emmanuel Macron and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez each made their first post-lockdown foreign trips to the summit along with African Union Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat to join regional presidents: Burkina Faso's Roch Marc Christian Kaboré; Chad's Idris Déby Itno; Mali's Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta; Niger's Mahamadou Issoufou; Mauritania's Ghazouani...

Having snubbed a delegation of four presidents from the Economic Community of West African States (including the Executive President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger) who were forced to cancel their mission at the last minute on 27 February Condé looked uncharacteristically contrite when he made his televised announcement the next day...