Niger’s President Mahamadou Issoufou also warned in June that militants from Afghanistan and Pakistan are training rebels in northern Mali...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 6 |
- NIGER
- CHINA
- BRIEFING
President Mahamadou Issoufou is under pressure to reduce petrol prices at the pump...
The four Presidents – Benin’s Thomas Yayi Boni Côte d’Ivoire’s Alassane Dramane Ouattara Guinea’s Alpha Condé and Niger’s Mahamadou Issoufou – present themselves as symbols of a new democratic wave in Francophone Africa...
67% of the vote in the first round of the presidential elections; Mahamadou Issoufou and the Parti Nigerien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme took 24...
The opposition has 28 seats: 16 seats for Mahamadou Issoufou's Parti Nigerien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme-Tarayya (PNDS) eight for the Rassemblement pour la Démocratie et le Progrès-Djamaa (RDP) and four seats for Adamou Moumouni Djermakoye's Alliance Nigerienne pour la Démocratie et le Progrès (ANDP)...
Mahamadou Issoufou of the Parti Nigerien pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme won the remaining 40...
Of the eight candidates the clear favourite is Mahamadou Issoufou of the Parti Nigerien de la Démocratie et du Socialisme a Hausa from Tahoua...
Mahamadou Issoufou has good links to France through the PNDS's affiliation to the Socialist International and his friendship with the ruling French Socialists' Africa specialist Guy Laberti...
