NIAMEY, Niger (AP) - Former Niger President Mamadou Tandja has died at agef 82, the government said Tuesday. Tandja, who was elected to lead Niger twice from 1999 to 2010, was eventually overthrown in ...

SIR: As a democrat, I become lachrymose whenever I learn of a coup, but ‘injustice’ often causes that. When the late President Mamadou Tandja of Niger was expected to step down in 2009 after ...

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Mamadou Tandja, a former Niger president who twice won election after the country's return to civilian rule in 1999 but was overthrown a decade later after altering the constitution ...

The president of a civil society coalition is currently in the custody of state security over his criticisms of the illegal extension of the president's term of office. (MFWA/IFEX) – Marou Amadou, ...

President Mamadou Tandja gave sweeping powers to the chairman of the media regulatory body, to deal unilaterally and decisively with the country's media. (MFWA/IFEX) – On 8 July 2009, President ...

In this file photo taken on March 27, 2009, then Niger's President Mamadou Tandja waves upon French President's arrival at Diori Hamani airport in Niamey. Tandja passed away on November 24, 2020. [AFP ...

NIAMEY, NigerNIAMEY, Niger — Former Niger President Mamadou Tandja has died at agef 82, the government said Tuesday. Tandja, who was elected to lead Niger twice from 1999 to 2010, was eventually ...