Faye and Senegal's Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko were also welcomed to Sahelian capitals last year yet they could not convince the Malian Nigérien and Burkinabè leaders Assimi Goïta Abdourahamane Tiani and Ibrahim Traoré to drop their plan to quit Ecowas...

The strengthening of Paris-Abuja ties has further antagonised Niger whose leader General Abdourahamane Tiani has accused France of paying Nigeria to set up terrorist centres in border states (Dispatches 31/12/24 Junta accuses Nigeria of French kiss )...

General Abdourahamane Tiani's junta may well decide that a Chinese firm is its best bet (AC Vol 65 No 23 Yellowcake shutdown)...

General Abdourahamane Tiani's regime accused Pinto da França of conducting ‘unauthorised operations' by dividing a €1...

But the Niger/Benin border has been closed for the past 15 months since last year's military coup which brought the ruling junta led by General Abdourahamane Tiani to power...

General Abdourahamane Tiani's military junta has carried out its threat to revoke the uranium mining licences of companies deemed not to have progressed their projects quickly enough but has not appointed any other investors in their place...

On 14 June in Niger the deposed head of state Mohamed Bazoum now facing a trial on charges of treason plotting against state security and freeing terrorists was deprived of his presidential immunity in a ruling by the new Cour d'État tribunal established by General Abdourahamane Tiani's regime (AC Vol 64 No 16 A coup foretold but not averted)...