{"id":855,"date":"2010-03-02T12:13:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/1ef1a1672e073660d4bd5c815ad73554#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-03-02T12:13:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T17:13:13","slug":"niger-junta-names-new-military-joint-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-junta-names-new-military-joint-chiefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger: Junta names new military joint chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Monday&#039;s announcement kicked three long standing generals up to provisional ministers, the junta in Niger has named the new joint chiefs, with continuity to the fore (again).  Those how moved up to ministerial positions were replaced by their adjutants. Air Corps General Souleymane (Seyni) Salou, one of the four officers favored by Tandja, is now Joint Chief, with the only obvious political casualty of the coup former joint Chief G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Division Moumouni Boureima still under arrest.  With Gen. Mamadou Ousseini a Minister, his adjutant Col. Salifou Mody (Modi) is head of the Army.  He&#039;s another member of the Junta and member of the 99 junta. Air Col. Hassane Mossi, the former adjutant becomes head of Air Forces.  He too is on the CSRD junta.  Their assistants are previously anonymous Colonels Didili Amadou (to the Chief), Iro Oumarou (Army), and Issa Hamza (air).  Note that Gen Seyni Salou, for having been bought off by Tandja, now appears beside Djibo Salou in meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Monday&#39;s announcement kicked three long standing generals up to provisional ministers, the junta in Niger has named the new joint chiefs, with continuity to the fore (again).  Those how moved up to ministerial positions were replaced by their adjutants. Air Corps General Souleymane (Seyni) Salou, one of the four officers favored by Tandja, is now Joint Chief, with the only obvious political casualty of the coup former joint Chief G\u00e9n\u00e9ral de Division Moumouni Boureima still under arrest.  With Gen. Mamadou Ousseini a Minister, his adjutant Col. Salifou Mody (Modi) is head of the Army.  He&#39;s another member of the Junta and member of the 99 junta. Air Col. Hassane Mossi, the former adjutant becomes head of Air Forces.  He too is on the CSRD junta.  Their assistants are previously anonymous Colonels Didili Amadou (to the Chief), Iro Oumarou (Army), and Issa Hamza (air).  Note that Gen Seyni Salou, for having been bought off by Tandja, now appears beside Djibo Salou in meetings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-junta-names-new-military-joint-chiefs\/\">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":[249,288,290,291,294,300,299,301],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":853,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-other-appointments-for-military-titans\/","url_meta":{"origin":855,"position":0},"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":856,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-more-tandja-loyalists-freed\/","url_meta":{"origin":855,"position":1},"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":943,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-whos-in-and-out-in-the-regions\/","url_meta":{"origin":855,"position":2},"title":"Niger: Who&#8217;s in and out in the Regions?","date":"March 13, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"As I noted on the 10th of March, the CSRD junta in Niger has replaced all the civilian Region Governors with military men to administer local affairs during the transition. We now have the full list, and while I for one hate to see any military governing, a careful look\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Afrique&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":843,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/02\/niger-whos-under-arrest-mk-iv\/","url_meta":{"origin":855,"position":3},"title":"Niger: Who&#8217;s under arrest, Mk. IV","date":"February 25, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Liberation (Niamey) reports Col. Gukoye (the CSRD spokesman) listed out yesterday (24th) who the junta currently has under arrest apart from Tandja. And despite the statements previously that these people were released, they are \"under arrest\", not just under surveillance in their homes. They are (all \"former\"): PM Ali Badjo\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":712,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/02\/niger-is-2010-just-1999-backwards\/","url_meta":{"origin":855,"position":4},"title":"Niger: Is 2010 just 1999 backwards?","date":"February 23, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The new military Junta in Niger has released their first real vision of their promised return to democracy. 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":937,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-junta-replaces-civilan-governors\/","url_meta":{"origin":855,"position":5},"title":"Niger: Junta replaces civilian governors","date":"March 11, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The official order to replace up the eight regional governors with military governors came today from the CSRD. This is no surprise: it was noted shortly after the coup that all official appearances were being done by the Commanders of each of the Zones de Defense, which match up to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Afrique&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mYFK-dN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"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=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}