General Salifou Mody

It's now clear that power lies with Tiani rather than General Salifou Mody deputy head of the Conseil national pour la sauvegarde de la patrie (CNSP) junta or chief of staff General Moussa Salaou Barmou...

Malian media report that while visiting Bamako on 16 September the Nigérien regime's number two Salifou Mody met Russian Deputy Defence Minister Colonel General Yunus-Bek Yevkurov and a senior figure from Moscow's GRU intelligence agency...

' Tiani and his number two Gen Salifou Mody appear to have control of the state machine installing ministers and officials in key administrative posts and military commands countrywide...

On 7 August the Niger junta's Defence Minister General Salifou Mody and Interior Minister Gen Mohamed Toumba flew to Togo for secret talks with President Gnassingbé diplomatic sources told Africa Confidential...

Most prominent is General Salifou Mody who took the defence portfolio and is seen as the second in command in the junta...

' He didn't explain how that translates into pressure on Generals Abdourahamane Tiani and Salifou Mody without playing into the junta's hands by fuelling the sense among Nigériens that they are being victimised...

Another significant figure in the drama is Gen Salifou Mody armed forces chief of staff until his dismissal in April...

After almost two years of tensions a 9 March visit by Nigérien armed forces chief of staff General Salifou Modi persuaded Bamako to grant cross-border hot pursuit rights – which Niamey's troops were quick to utilise claiming a major success against militants who had retreated deep into Mali after staging an ambush in February...

Salifou Mody who was Tandja’s Deputy Chief of Military Staff and the new regime’s Permanent Secretary Col...