Mahamadou Issoufou

With the 27 December first round of the presidential election approaching fast Mohamed Bazoum – who spent 10 years as President Mahamadou Issoufou's right-hand man – is in full campaign mode...

On 23 July a procession of regional heads of state gathered in Bamako: President Muhammadu Buhari (Nigeria) Mahamadou Issoufou (Niger) Nana Akufo-Addo (Ghana) Alassane Ouattara (Côte d'Ivoire) and Macky Sall (Senegal)...

France's President Emmanuel Macron and Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez each made their first post-lockdown foreign trips to the summit along with African Union Chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat to join regional presidents: Burkina Faso's Roch Marc Christian Kaboré; Chad's Idris Déby Itno; Mali's Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta; Niger's Mahamadou Issoufou; Mauritania's Ghazouani...

Having snubbed a delegation of four presidents from the Economic Community of West African States (including the Executive President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger) who were forced to cancel their mission at the last minute on 27 February Condé looked uncharacteristically contrite when he made his televised announcement the next day...

The crisis has forced a rethink by the G5 France and West African and European allies with Niger's head of state Mahamadou Issoufou lobbying for a major international offensive like that mounted against Islamic State (IS or Da'ish) in Iraq and Syria last year...

The assembled heads of state – Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Roch Marc Christian Kaboré of Burkina Faso (currently the G5 Executive President) Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta of Mali Idriss Déby Itno of Chad and Mohamed Cheikh el Ghazouani of Mauritania pleaded for more allies in the fight against terrorism...

Côte d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara his Malian counterpart Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari and Niger's Mahamadou Issoufou who chaired the meeting gathered to try to turn the underfunded understaffed and underwhelming anti-terrorist Force Conjointe du G5 Sahel into a credible fighting machine...

This was clearly Keïta's attempt to placate the Nigérien President Mahamadou Issoufou who on a visit to Bamako on 7 September publicly described Kidal as 'a threat to the internal security of Niger'...

His network includes president of Niger Republic Mahamadou Issoufou...

The opposition wants to keep Amadou in the contest and build momentum for him early so as to maximise his chances of succeeding President Mahamadou Issoufou who is in his second and final term...