Mamadou Tandja

Niger is settling down to a second five-year term for President Mamadou Tandja after a quietly successful election though as in Mali armed gangs in the north remain a security concern...

Local opponents of President Mamadou Tandja are taking full advantage of army unrest in Diffa; a mass escape of imprisoned mutineers in early December some with links to the late President Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara points to further instability although the Presidential Guard is thought to be loyal...

In Niger disillusion with electoral politics has spread since the election in December 1999 of President Mamadou Tandja...

9 per cent vote for President Mamadou Tandja in the second round when he was helped by the backing of ex-President Mahamane Ousmane...

Also apparently against the West African grain President Mamadou Tandja's government in Niger and President Alpha Oumar Konaré's in Mali are held up as effective reform-minded governments...

PariDak's French organisers led by ski legend Jean-Claude Killy tried to minimise the embarrassment of President Mamadou Tandja's government which may close its borders to next year's event...

Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara was 'accidentally killed' in an airport shoot-out in April Major Daouda Mallam Wanké telescoped an election timetable which ended in the credible election in October of President Mamadou Tandja...

The former ruling party pulled it off again: Mamadou Tandja of the Mouvement National pour la Société de Développement polled 59...

Second place will probably be won by veteran Colonel (Retired) Mamadou Tandja MNSD President backed by Togo'sPresident Gnassingbé Eyadéma...