General Abdourahamane Tiani

Junta leader General Abdourahamane Tiani blamed the governments of France Côte d'Ivoire and Benin for sponsoring the attack but independent security sources questioned this after Islamic State (Da'ish) claimed responsibility for the attacks on the airport and airbase...

SlopagandaNone of the three AES leaders – General Assimi Goïta in Mali Captain Ibrahim Traoré in Burkina Faso and General Abdourahmane Tiani in Niger admits he is losing a war (AC Vol 66 No 12 Jihadists hit harder as junta loses focus Vol 66 No 17 General Tiani tightens grip as regional rumblings grow louder & Vol 66 No 6 Captain Traoré digs in for a long stay)...

Tinubu had given the putschists in Niamey led by General Abdourahamane Tiani a week's deadline to release the ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and restore constitutional rule or face military intervention...

They were cheered on by Pan-Africanist influencer Kémi Séba an advisor to the leader of Niger's junta General Abdourahamane Tiani...

General Abdourahamane Tiani's regime has pulled troops back from Diffa region Lake Chad and Nigeria's Borno state to reinforce Niamey's defence – risking a reversal of security gains in the borderlands...

The latest round of arrests in Mali amid reports of a planned putsch on 10 August looks unlikely to change the centralisation of power in Bamako or in the neighbouring states – under Captain Ibrahim Traoré in Burkina Faso and General Abdourahamane Tiani in Niger...

This radical shift in national trajectory has been overseen by General Abdourahamane Tiani who over 12 years as commander of the presidential guard by President Mahamadou Issoufou was notoriously taciturn on political matters...

The capacity of Nigeria's military to respond to these attacks and gather intelligence about the factions has been seriously weakened since the schism opened up between the Tinubu government and Niger after General Abdourahamane Tiani's coup against Mohamed Bazoum in Niamey on 23 July 2023...

Brussels risks being accused of complicity in the juntas' rights abuses and the Sahelian military leaders – General Assimi Goïta Captain Ibrahim Traoré and Gen Abdourahamane Tiani – don't want reports of deals with Brussels to undermine their nationalist anti-west stance...

Faye and Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko were also welcomed to Sahelian capitals last year yet they could not convince the Malian Nigérien and Burkinabè leaders Assimi Goïta Abdourahamane Tiani and Ibrahim Traoré to drop their plan to quit Ecowas...