{"id":1002,"date":"2010-04-02T12:15:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T17:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/db6d1654f167be4b622f9dcb5251420a#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-04-02T12:15:24","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T17:15:24","slug":"niger-interior-minister-climbs-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/04\/niger-interior-minister-climbs-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger: Interior Minister climbs down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following court complaints lodged by lawyers for the 17 Tandja Ministers and loyalists Friday morning, Junta Interior Minister Ousmane Ciss\u00e9 has climbed down, stating that 14 of them &quot;will be released&quot; &quot;for the sake of social peace.&quot; Tandja&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following court complaints lodged by lawyers for the 17 Tandja Ministers and loyalists Friday morning, Junta Interior Minister Ousmane Ciss\u00e9 has climbed down, stating that 14 of them &quot;will be released&quot; &quot;for the sake of social peace.&quot; Tandja&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/04\/niger-interior-minister-climbs-down\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[107,66],"tags":[287,249,397,325,401,247,400,284,83],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":856,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-more-tandja-loyalists-freed\/","url_meta":{"origin":1002,"position":0},"title":"Niger: More Tandja loyalists freed","date":"March 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Lib\u00e9ration-Niger reports that three security heads were freed from custody: Col. Hamidou Ma\u00efgari, head of the 600 man Presidential Guard under Tandja was freed along with a Captain of the same unit. Both were held at Camp Bagagi Iya, best known for the football stadium where the FNIS and Army\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":853,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-other-appointments-for-military-titans\/","url_meta":{"origin":1002,"position":1},"title":"Niger: Other appointments for military titans","date":"March 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"I've argued that continuity and inclusiveness is the watchword of the new CSRD junta in Niger. Some additional appointments announced today underscore this. Disgraced Tandja Military chief and co-conspirator General Moumouni Boure\u00efma's aide Col Abdou Sidikou Issa is one of the main field commanders to rise from the 99 coup.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":854,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-junta-appeals-to-authority\/","url_meta":{"origin":1002,"position":2},"title":"Niger: Junta appeals to authority","date":"March 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Like many nations, Nigeriens make a distinction between \"political\" figures and \"National\" figures. Of course this distinction is artificial and changeable: deposed President Tandja tried to position himself as \"above\" politics, as a justification for taking dictatorial powers, and see where that got him. 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