Even with Amadou's popular touch absent from the race there are other heavyweight contenders still in the 30-strong field including the former president Mahamane Ousmane former foreign minister Ibrahim Yacouba one-time opponent turned government ally Seyni Oumarou and the retired general Salou Djibo who led the 2010 military coup (AC Vol 51 No 5 A coup to stop a coup)...
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The company lost its bid for a stake in the Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company in November losing out to India’s Essar (see page 5) but China Sonangol’s executives have also been courting the junta of coup-maker and former tank commander Lieutenant General Salou Djibo in Niger...
Having seized power in a relatively popular coup vowed to hold elections and tackled a food crisis Niger’s military junta headed by Major Salou Djibo looked to be sitting pretty (AC Vol 51 No 19)...
Its leader Major Salou Djibo has been at the United Nations Millennium summit in New York this week a sign of acceptance...
The CSRD leader Major Salou Djibou and his team promised that they would not stand in any future election but similar pledges have not been honoured elsewhere...
Five days later the new head of state Salou Djibou announced that no member of the ruling Conseil Suprême pour la Restauration de la Démocratie (CSRD) or the transitional government would stand in the coming presidential election...
Salou Djibou commander of the main armoured unit in Niamey led the assault on the Presidency which culminated in the capture of President Mamadou Tandja and his ministers on 18 February...
