Niger’s latest rebellion is getting worse although President Mamadou Tandja refuses to acknowledge its existence (AC Vol 48 Nos 8 & 18)...
President Mamadou Tandja has declared a state of alert in the north the base of Niger's fast growing uranium industry after attacks on key targets killed some 50 government soldiers (AC Vol 48 No 8)...
Vol 48 No 16 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
French Cooperation Minister Jean-Marie Bockel is due in Niamey on 4 August to smooth ties with President Mamadou Tandja...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Compaoré was going to take over the ECOWAS chair from Niger’s President Mamadou Tandja while Ecowas was to install its new Commission; the UEMOA countries had been due to name a new head of the West African Central Bank to succeed Ivorian Premier Konan Banny...
Vol 46 No 17 |
- NIGER
- SAHEL
As UN Secretary General Kofi Annan arrived in Niamey for talks with President Mamadou Tandja the director of France's Médecins sans Frontières Jean-Hervé Bradol demanded that Annan call to order the relevant UN agencies - the World Food Programme and UN Children's Fund - accusing them of failing to respond to the gravity of the crisis...
Niger's Mamadou Tandja expressed Sahelian solidarity with Faure...
Regional leaders including African Union Chairman Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria Amadou Toumani Touré of Mali and the Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) Niger's Mamadou Tandja swiftly condemned the constitutional coup attempted in the name of Faure Gnassingbé the old dictator's son; Ghana kept quiet...
Even Mamadou Tandja of Niger who chairs the group is thought to be pro-Faure...
A 9 February summit decided to send a heavyweight mission of five Presidents - new ECOWAS leader President Mamadou Tandja of Niger Olusegun Obasanjo (Nigeria) Amadou Toumani Touré (Mali) John Agyekum Kufuor (Ghana) and Mathieu Kérékou (Benin)...
West African diplomats were very relieved that Niger's President Mamadou Tandja beat Gambia's President Yahya Jammeh to win the chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at its summit in Accra Ghana on 18-19 January...
