{"id":878,"date":"2010-03-04T13:21:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T18:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/d06caa80ec895061d5816a80f932741e#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-03-04T13:21:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T18:21:40","slug":"niger-council-of-ministers-names-former-pms-offical-secretary-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-council-of-ministers-names-former-pms-offical-secretary-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger: Council of Ministers names former PM&#8217;s offical Secretary General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niger&#039;s state paper reports a preliminary meeting of Ministers were given instruction by the Junta Head of State Cmdt. Salou Djibo on Wednesday (3 March).  A &quot;Secretary General&quot; of the Council was named: Mrs. Adama Saliah Gazibo.  The report describes her as a Judge, which she is.  But she was also one of the chief officials of former PM Hama Amadou, the once scion of Tandja who later became his arch foe.  Hama is seen by some conspiratorially minded as the backer of this coup.  Adama Saliah Gazibo&#039;s appointment won&#039;t help this.  She is also the official who famously attempted to discredit the slavery testimony of a Nigerienne Mariama Oumarou&#039;s at the 2001 Durban racism conference.  About the girl, who was married at 15 to a Nigerian by her Tuareg noble master and used as a servant and raped, Saliah said a Niger court &quot;found that the girl&#039;s marriage was legitimate under traditional law. This girl should not come here and disgrace her country when the legal process has done its work.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niger&#39;s state paper reports a preliminary meeting of Ministers were given instruction by the Junta Head of State Cmdt. Salou Djibo on Wednesday (3 March).  A &quot;Secretary General&quot; of the Council was named: Mrs. Adama Saliah Gazibo.  The report describes her as a Judge, which she is.  But she was also one of the chief officials of former PM Hama Amadou, the once scion of Tandja who later became his arch foe.  Hama is seen by some conspiratorially minded as the backer of this coup.  Adama Saliah Gazibo&#39;s appointment won&#39;t help this.  She is also the official who famously attempted to discredit the slavery testimony of a Nigerienne Mariama Oumarou&#39;s at the 2001 Durban racism conference.  About the girl, who was married at 15 to a Nigerian by her Tuareg noble master and used as a servant and raped, Saliah said a Niger court &quot;found that the girl&#39;s marriage was legitimate under traditional law. This girl should not come here and disgrace her country when the legal process has done its work.&quot;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-council-of-ministers-names-former-pms-offical-secretary-general\/\">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":[323,249,288,325,299,324],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":217,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2009\/06\/tazartche-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":878,"position":0},"title":"Tazartch\u00e9 update","date":"June 26, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Just when you'd like to put it to bed, the constitutional crisis in Niger continues, weaving like a distracted taxi driver: from sigh to scream and back again. I'll focus a bit on three events of importance.\u00a0 After Tandja sent out a letter lecturing the Constiutional Court on their decision\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Featured&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1705,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/03\/niger-arrests-continue-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":878,"position":1},"title":"Niger: Arrests continue","date":"March 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"The arrests I noted earlier continued Monday, with at least 13 figures being held at the Gendarmerie, including top leaders who rallied to Tandja's 6th Republic in 2009: former PM and MNSD party leader Seini Oumarou, Mohamed Ben Omar and Moktar Kassoum...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Afrique&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":878,"position":2},"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. 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Zaka\u00ef, a Zarma businessman and political funder, was at the center of the 2006 \"MEBA Affair\" that brought down PM Hama Amadou, along with the equally shady Himadou Hamani of \"Sirign\u00e9r\u00e9\". Zaka\u00ef had been a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Afrique&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mYFK-ea","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878"}],"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=878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}