{"id":850,"date":"2010-02-22T22:58:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/8c6ce2288bf9e836be614a768537e72d#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-02-22T22:58:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T03:58:11","slug":"niger-tandja-to-get-red-cross-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/02\/niger-tandja-to-get-red-cross-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger: Tandja to get Red Cross visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Col. Hima &quot;Pele&quot; Hamadou told the press this weekend that (ex) President Tandja would be visited by the Red Cross to confirm his health.    Pele says that Tandja is under house arrest with his family.  MNSD-Nassara VP Ali Sabo (assistant to party president Seini Oumarou and chair Albad\u00e9 Abouba, both high ranking ministers whose whereabouts are not public ) has told the press that Tandja is not allowed any visitors but his doctor, and is being held not at the military school south of town, but in the &quot;Villa Verte&quot;: a luxurious house abutting the President Palace&#039;s compound, often used for state functions, official meetings, and as home of visiting heads of state.  Former Mauritanian President Ould Taya, disposed by coup, spent the first days of his exile there in 2005. Not too shabby!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Col. Hima &quot;Pele&quot; Hamadou told the press this weekend that (ex) President Tandja would be visited by the Red Cross to confirm his health.    Pele says that Tandja is under house arrest with his family.  MNSD-Nassara VP Ali Sabo (assistant to party president Seini Oumarou and chair Albad\u00e9 Abouba, both high ranking ministers whose whereabouts are not public ) has told the press that Tandja is not allowed any visitors but his doctor, and is being held not at the military school south of town, but in the &quot;Villa Verte&quot;: a luxurious house abutting the President Palace&#039;s compound, often used for state functions, official meetings, and as home of visiting heads of state.  Former Mauritanian President Ould Taya, disposed by coup, spent the first days of his exile there in 2005. Not too shabby!<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/02\/niger-tandja-to-get-red-cross-visit\/\">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],"tags":[287,286,249,288,285,289,284,83],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":839,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/02\/niger-behind-the-scenes-at-a-coup\/","url_meta":{"origin":850,"position":0},"title":"Niger: Behind the scenes at a coup","date":"February 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Christophe Boisbouvier in Jeune Afrique was a veritable \"Roman de cle\", detailing how the February 18 Coup happened behind the scenes, according to his inside sources. 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