Mahamadou Issoufou

They are also helped by the failure of former president Mahamadou Issoufou to campaign energetically for the restoration of Bazoum with whom he has worked for three decades...

Bazoum succeeded his close colleague Mahamadou Issoufou who had stood down after two terms as the law required...

So one of the junta's early targets was PNDS president Foumakoye Gado currently thought to be detained with Sani Mahamadou oil minister and son of former President Mahamadou Issoufou in a villa in the presidential complex...

Looming in the background of the Niger coup is the role played by the biggest procurement scandal in the country's history – the diversion of nearly half the defence budget into private hands over the whole of President Mahamadou Issoufou's term of office...

Katambé one of Mahamadou Issoufou's closest friends had promised on his appointment that 'anyone who has eaten public money and stuffed themselves at the expense of the poor' would be made to pay...

Tiani's presidential guard was confining Bazoum to his home while former President Mahamadou Issoufou was trying to talk the general down...

He joined West African leaders at the Abuja summit before flying on to Niamey where he met Tiani the still detained Bazoum and former President Mahamadou Issoufou who has been urging the putschists to abandon the coup...

While such immediate political manoeuvres play out Guterres has announced that he and AU Commission chief Moussa Faki Mahamat have asked Niger's former President Mahamadou Issoufou to lead a new Independent High Level Panel on Security and Development in the Sahel...

The military has been expanded to around 30 000 today he said from 11 000 when the Parti nigérien pour la démocratie et le socialisme took power in 2011 under his predecessor Mahamadou Issoufou...

President Bazoum makes no apologies for aligning with western governments as a key security partner a policy established by his friend and predecessor as president Mahamadou Issoufou (AC Vol 59 No 8 Issoufou under fire)...

Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum was elected last year as the hand-picked successor to President Mahamadou Issoufou...

Bazoum is well-connected having been a key architect of Niger's Western-allied security strategy as foreign and then interior minister under President Mahamadou Issoufou (AC Vol 61 No 25 Dauphin goes to the polls)...

The provisional results now challenged by Ousmane at the constitutional court were much as expected: he dominated in opposition strongholds – Niamey and the surrounding region Tillabéri – while Bazoum achieved big majorities in his native east (Diffa) and the north (Agadez) and secured a crushing triumph in Tahoua home region of his ally the retiring President Mahamadou Issoufou...