{"id":852,"date":"2010-03-01T23:13:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T04:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/8d2c58ead3934709193f5b0ff1de6acc#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-03-01T23:13:03","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T04:13:03","slug":"niger-first-provisional-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-first-provisional-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger: First provisional government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The CSRD Junta has named (1 March) a provisional government of 20 ministers. Apart form President Salou Djibo, there are five military men all from the highest levels, including Generals Mamadou Ousseini, Mai Manga Oumara, Abdou Kaza who were just below Tandja&#039;s Military Chief Boureima, and considered loyalists to that regime.  They are joined by Colonels Ahmed Mohamed and Diallo Amadou who were members of Wanke&#039;s 1999 junta.  Their five portfolios make this the most military officers in a government since Gen. Ali Saibou&#039;s 11 March 1991 government, the last prior to democratization.  The only other new Minister (other than PM Danda) to have served at this level: Minister of Education Dan Dah, who was Justice Minister under Wanke.  Of the less known remaining, five are women, the most of any Nigerien government.  Only time will tell if these civilian ministers hold powerful posts past the transition, or are influential over the junta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CSRD Junta has named (1 March) a provisional government of 20 ministers. Apart form President Salou Djibo, there are five military men all from the highest levels, including Generals Mamadou Ousseini, Mai Manga Oumara, Abdou Kaza who were just below Tandja&#039;s Military Chief Boureima, and considered loyalists to that regime.  They are joined by Colonels Ahmed Mohamed and Diallo Amadou who were members of Wanke&#039;s 1999 junta.  Their five portfolios make this the most military officers in a government since Gen. Ali Saibou&#039;s 11 March 1991 government, the last prior to democratization.  The only other new Minister (other than PM Danda) to have served at this level: Minister of Education Dan Dah, who was Justice Minister under Wanke.  Of the less known remaining, five are women, the most of any Nigerien government.  Only time will tell if these civilian ministers hold powerful posts past the transition, or are influential over the junta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-first-provisional-government\/\">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":[249,288,290],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":874,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-short-bio-of-a-new-minister-and-spokesman\/","url_meta":{"origin":852,"position":0},"title":"Niger: Short bio of a new Minister and spokesman","date":"March 3, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Mahaman Laouali Dan Dah, who was appointed by the CSRD junta on Monday as Minister of Secondary Education, has also been appointed spokesman for the new provisional government. 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Niger's expectations, a redux of recent history, are being played to by the soldiers.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Featured&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":852,"position":4},"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. 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