{"id":1705,"date":"2010-03-29T20:33:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T01:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/previous.delicious.com\/url\/c4ee1e16d0bebde92c2b382edc725f97#tomathon"},"modified":"2013-10-16T20:23:25","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T01:23:25","slug":"niger-arrests-continue-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-arrests-continue-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger: Arrests continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The arrests I noted earlier continued Monday, with at least 13 figures being held at the Gendarmerie, including top leaders who rallied to Tandja&#8217;s 6th Republic in 2009: former PM and MNSD party leader Seini Oumarou, Mohamed Ben Omar and Moktar Kassoum (former spokesmen for Tandja), and several top Ministers from the 2009 governments including Daouda Diallo, the chief of the CSC press censorship board (former PM Gamite remains in France, and is free).  More interesting, arrests of chiefs of large state companies (SPEN, NIGELEC) and Tandja family point to corruption charges.  But other reports said that several military officers were also arrested (no names yet).  That last fact gives some support to Interior Minister Ciss\u00e9 Ousmane&#8217;s statement that these arrests are linked to &#8220;a subversive plot&#8221;.  Still, I think this has more to do with opposition desire for justice.  A coincidence that likely future President Hama Amadou returned to Niger on the 26th?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrests I noted earlier continued Monday, with at least 13 figures being held at the Gendarmerie, including top leaders who rallied to Tandja&#8217;s 6th Republic in 2009: former PM and MNSD party leader Seini Oumarou, Mohamed Ben Omar and Moktar Kassoum&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-arrests-continue-3\/\">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":[75,107,66],"tags":[399,249,397,288,398,245,378,569,284,83],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1334,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-junta-arrest-former-tandja-offical-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1705,"position":0},"title":"Niger: Junta arrest former Tandja offical","date":"March 16, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Kassoum Moctar, a Tandja loyalist plucked from obscurity to become Minister of Communications and spokesman during 2009's 6th Republic, was arrested in Niamey today. Apparently he is being held in connection with his continuing public demands tha...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Afrique&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1704,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-arrests-now-reach-former-rebel-leaders-3-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1705,"position":1},"title":"Niger: Arrests now reach former rebel leaders","date":"March 31, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Former rebel leader Rhissa Ag Boula, along with former commander Kindo Zada, were arrested today on unknown charges, and are reported to be in the Niamey civil prison. Rhissa Ag Boula is one of the most prominent, if divisive, Tuareg leaders, becoming...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Afrique&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":856,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-more-tandja-loyalists-freed\/","url_meta":{"origin":1705,"position":2},"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":462,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2009\/11\/nigerpiling-on-the-pressure\/","url_meta":{"origin":1705,"position":3},"title":"Niger:Piling on the Pressure","date":"November 11, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"As the \"Abuja I\" talks begin with ECOWAS, President Tandja of Niger is increasingly backed into a political and financial corner. Will his \"6th Republic\" be sacrificed as a way out?","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Featured&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":515,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2009\/12\/niger-republic-day-opens-danger-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":1705,"position":4},"title":"Niger: Republic Day opens Danger Week?","date":"December 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The December 18th anniversary of the Nigerien Republic begins a series of dates which may bring the political crisis to a boil, just as mediators think they've made a breakthrough.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Featured&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":1705,"position":5},"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. But one of the most interesting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mYFK-rv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2014,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/2014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}