{"id":856,"date":"2010-03-02T14:25:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/8040af4b27c8fa1185c3b909fe119725#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-03-02T14:25:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T19:25:00","slug":"niger-more-tandja-loyalists-freed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-more-tandja-loyalists-freed\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger: More Tandja loyalists freed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 teams play.  The later is headed by junta  no 2 Col. Pele Hima Mamadou, coincidentally or not.      <\/p>\n<p>As noted earlier, Army Colonel Abdou Sidikou Issa was just transferred to head the FNIS (which commands the Guard).  The former FNIS head Colonel Assoumane Abdou remained loyal to Tandja, and is one of only a handful of top commanders to have disappeared from the scene.  Most others previously seen as close to Tandja have rallied to the new Junta. Liberation also points out that Col. Bagu\u00e9, Tandja&#039;s Aide de camp (and conflated in some earlier reports with CSRD Secretary Col. Abdoulaye Badie), was released by the junta several days earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 teams play.  The later is headed by junta  no 2 Col. Pele Hima Mamadou, coincidentally or not.      <\/p>\n<p>As noted earlier, Army Colonel Abdou Sidikou Issa was just transferred to head the FNIS (which commands the Guard).  The former FNIS head Colonel Assoumane Abdou remained loyal to Tandja, and is one of only a handful of top commanders to have disappeared from the scene.  Most others previously seen as close to Tandja have rallied to the new Junta. Liberation also points out that Col. Bagu\u00e9, Tandja&#39;s Aide de camp (and conflated in some earlier reports with CSRD Secretary Col. Abdoulaye Badie), was released by the junta several days earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-more-tandja-loyalists-freed\/\">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":[302,249,288,304,305,303,83],"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":856,"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":839,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/02\/niger-behind-the-scenes-at-a-coup\/","url_meta":{"origin":856,"position":1},"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. I haven't the room to detail every revelation, but here are some of the top. Tandja cut the pay and dismisses 37 members of\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":856,"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":879,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-tandjas-spymasters-wasted-funds\/","url_meta":{"origin":856,"position":3},"title":"Niger: Tandja&#8217;s spymaster&#8217;s wasted funds","date":"March 4, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"\"Norbert\" in Niamey's \"Le Courrier\" paper has interesting piece on the ineffectiveness of Tandja's Interior Minister Abouba Albad\u00e9. Albad\u00e9, a Tandja-ist of the first water served briefly as PM and importantly headed up the police and internal paramiltary (FNIS) services. He was one of the men most associated with Tandja's\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Afrique&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":668,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/02\/niger-coup-against-tandja\/","url_meta":{"origin":856,"position":4},"title":"Niger: Coup against Tandja","date":"February 18, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"After a day of confusion, President Tandja and his supporters are under arrest by the military. I have maintained the live updates from the 18th, and added an in depth analysis of the new CSRD junta.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Featured&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"Nigerien Armored Cars, 2008","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fanchart.jpg?fit=1200%2C528&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":855,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-junta-names-new-military-joint-chiefs\/","url_meta":{"origin":856,"position":5},"title":"Niger: Junta names new military joint chiefs","date":"March 2, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"While Monday'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\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Blog&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mYFK-dO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856"}],"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=856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}