Mamadou Tandja

It is to be headed by Prime Minister Ali Mahamane Lamine Zeine formerly an economist with the African Development Bank and finance minister from 2002 to 2010 under the ex-soldier President Mamadou Tandja...

When Mamadou Tandja tried to prolong his stay in power in Niger in 2009 Ecowas pressed the European Union to impose aid sanctions and when Gambian strongman Yahya Jammeh sought to ignore election defeat in late 2016 the bloc piled on military threat and diplomatic pressure until he departed into exile...

But the interview's public impact was largely eclipsed by the death last month of Mamadou Tandja 82 one-time MNSD leader and president of Niger from 1999 until 2010 – when he was deposed by the army after starting to dismantle democratic safeguards to prolong his stay in office (AC Vol 50 No 14 President Tandja goes for a third term)...

The last time civil society rose to condemn an unpopular budget was in 2005 when a younger Issoufou and Bazoum were among the louder voices denouncing the then President Mamadou Tandja...

A project backed by deposed President Mamadou Tandja the China National Petroleum Corporation-built plant was due to make the country energy independent and stop the government from subsidising petrol prices...

Niger won much praise for the smoothness of the 2011 presidential poll which returned the country to democracy after a year under the military junta that had deposed President Mamadou Tandja...

Former President Mamadou Tandja pushed the Soraz deal through in 2008 and without any feasibility studies...

After managing a transition which led to the election on 12 March of new President Mahamdou Issoufou the military junta has announced that it will not hand over power on 6 April without first ensuring that contracts signed by the previous regime under ousted President Mamadou Tandja are in the best interests of Niger and that the terms of those contracts have been respected...

When they were discussing Nigerien President Mamadou Tandja’s undemocratic manoeuvrings ‘NSC [National Security Council] Senior Advisor Michelle Gavin underscored that our counter-terrorism efforts cannot undercut our governance and democracy priorities in Africa ’ the cable ran...

Niger For Niger the crisis with Al Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) comes as the military regime that overthrew President Mamadou Tandja last February approaches the return of democracy...