Mahamadou Issoufou

Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou the Acting Chairman of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma the President of the African Union Commission and Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo all attended...

In spite of the testy relations between some African politicians and Europe President Mahamadou Issoufou has cultivated strong support from top officials in Brussels and Paris...

Yet now President Mahamadou Issoufou is looking increasingly insecure amid political tension...

Negotiations apparently resumed months ago with Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou and his advisors playing a key role...

President Mahamadou Issoufou says the Agadez assailants came from southern Libya...

Most notable among them are a former party chief and ex-Chairman of the National Assembly Roch Marc Christian Kaboré who was gradually squeezed out of the party last year and former Agriculture Minister Salif Diallo who is dead against the rise of François and works in Niger as an advisor to President Mahamadou Issoufou...

Gado and the rest of President Mahamadou Issoufou’s government claim that price is the lowest the refinery can go and still pay back the loan the government signed for the plant’s construction...

President Mahamadou Issoufou started his term with international approval...

Libya’s National Transitional Council immediately branded Niger as complicit in Gadaffi’s crimes and reacted angrily when in November President Mahamadou Issoufou granted Es Saadi asylum...

Ahead of the Fifth Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC V) in Beijing on 19-20 July President Mahamadou Issoufou declared that Niger’s cooperation with China on natural resources had only just begun...