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Mahamane Ousmane

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history of Niger

In Niger: Independence and conflict
Mahamane Ousmane of the Social Democratic Convention became president in the country’s first multiparty presidential elections in 1993. Meanwhile, a Tuareg rebellion that had begun in the northern part of the country in the early 1990s gained momentum until a cease-fire agreement in 1995 ended…
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opposition by Maïnassara

In Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara
…chief of staff by President Mahamane Ousmane, and in 1995 Prime Minister Hama Amadou named him army chief. At that time the government was in the midst of an internal power struggle as Ousmane was preparing to dissolve the opposition-controlled legislature, which was threatening to outlaw the president’s political party,…
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