Mahamadou Issoufou

Arrested on his return from exile in France Amadou is one of 15 candidates challenging President Mahamadou Issoufou...

At least half a dozen candidates are already in the running with President Mahamadou Issoufou almost certain to win...

No fewer than 18 heads of state were invited to the opening but only two (Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger and Denis Sassou-Nguesso now in trouble in Congo-Brazzaville) showed up...

NIGER: Controversial agreement with AREVA means royalties will increase only with profitsA new five-year 'strategic partnership' in uranium mining signed between the government of President Mahamadou Issoufou and Areva at the end of May looks to be more favourable to France's largely state-owned nuclear manufacturing and mining group than initially realised...

Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou the Acting Chairman of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) Mauritania's President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma the President of the African Union Commission and Nigeria's former President Olusegun Obasanjo all attended...

In spite of the testy relations between some African politicians and Europe President Mahamadou Issoufou has cultivated strong support from top officials in Brussels and Paris...

Yet now President Mahamadou Issoufou is looking increasingly insecure amid political tension...

Negotiations apparently resumed months ago with Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou and his advisors playing a key role...

President Mahamadou Issoufou says the Agadez assailants came from southern Libya...

Most notable among them are a former party chief and ex-Chairman of the National Assembly Roch Marc Christian Kaboré who was gradually squeezed out of the party last year and former Agriculture Minister Salif Diallo who is dead against the rise of François and works in Niger as an advisor to President Mahamadou Issoufou...