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	Articles - Hamani Diori (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hamani Diori (6 June 1916 â€“ 23 April 1989) was the first President of the Republic of Niger.
		Born in the town of SoudourÃ©, Diori was the son of a Djerma public health official in the French colonial administration.
		Domestically, however, his administration was rife with corruption, and the government was unable to implement much-needed reforms or to alleviate the widespread famine brought on by the Sahelian drought of the early 1970's.
	www.beatlesa.com /articles/Hamani_Diori (371 words)

	Seyni Kountché - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Politically, the nation was ruled as a one party state led by president Hamani Diori.
		The economy remained weak despite attempts to exploit the large reserves of uranium in the country.
		Kountché's first official acts were to suspend the Constitution, dissolve the National Assembly, ban all political parties, and release political prisoners.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Seyni_Kountche (613 words)

	History - Niger - Africa
		In 1960 Hamani Diori was elected president by the legislature.
		In 1964 the government crushed a rebellion aimed against the Diori regime, and in April 1965 the president survived an assassination attempt.
		Accused of corruption and of mishandling the famine, Diori was overthrown in a military coup d’etat in April 1974.
	www.countriesquest.com /africa/niger/history.htm (865 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Tuareg in Niger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Although the initial Diori cabinet tended to favor the Djerma-Songhai, the public policy was redressed with an increase in the number of Hausa ministers by 1967.
		A major Niger's dissident organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Niger (FPLN), led by Abdoulaye Diori, the son of ex-President Hamani Diori, was responsible for an armed attack at Tchin Taharaden by 14 Libyan-trained Tuareg tribesmen.
		Abdoulaye Diori returned from Libya.The ex-president Diori and the former Sawaba leader Bakary were received by Saibou, and an appeal was made to exiled Nigerians to return to the country.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=43603 (6379 words)

	History of NIGER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Niger, becoming independent in 1960 after the dissolution of French West Africa, has to wait longer than other French colonies in the region before even lip service is paid to the principles of democracy.
		The country's first president, Hamani Diori, is an experienced politician in the French system (as a delegate to the national assembly in Paris, and one of the assembly's vice-presidents in 1957-8), but when he is elected president of Niger, in 1960, he immediately puts in place a single-party system, banning all opposition.
		Diori remains in power until in 1974, when he is toppled in a coup led by his military chief of staff, Lt-Col. Seyni Kountché.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad04 (419 words)

	French Involvement in Niger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was very fortunate for Hamani that the French troops were placed in Niamey because he was forced to call on them during his first term in office.
		During Hamani Diori’s second and third terms was when Niger began to have increasing civil disobedience for a variety of reasons.
		Diori was subsequently sent to prison where he remained until 1980.
	www.acdis.uiuc.edu:16080 /Research/OPs/Pederson/html/contents/sect7.html (1742 words)

	Niger (country) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Niger achieved full independence in 1960, and Hamani Diori was elected president.
		Maintaining close relations with France, Diori seemed to have established one of the most stable regimes in Africa, and the discovery of uranium deposits promised a sound economic future.
		A severe drought 1968–74 resulted in widespread civil disorder, and in April 1974 Diori was ousted by the army led by the Chief of Staff, Lt-Col Seyni Kountché.
	tiscalibusiness.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0019832.html (785 words)

	Africare – A leading nonprofit organization, specializing in aid to Africa
		Diori Hamani, then president of the Republic of Niger, appealed to the United States on the effort's behalf.
		It was to C. Payne Lucas, among others, that President Diori Hamani addressed his appeal.
		In addition to President Diori Hamani, Kirker and Lucas, other incorporators were Nigerien diplomat Oumarou G. Youssoufou and Joseph C. Kennedy, Ph.D., then at Peace Corps.
	www.africare.org /about/history/history.html (677 words)

	Lonely Planet's Guide to Niger
		Although the original vote was for self-government, the next two years saw a lot of political argument between the government and a number of disenchanted parties agitating for full independence.
		When Niger finally gained full independence in 1960, Hamani Diori was elected president unopposed, and, with help from a sympathetic French administration, remained in political power until the droughts of 1973 and 74.
		When food stockpiles were found in the homes of Diori's ministers during the drought, it marked the end of Diori's rule.
	aolsvc.travel.aol.com /travel/lonely_planet/africa/niger/history.html (985 words)

	Hamani Diori - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Hamani Diori - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This article about a politician is a stub.
		This page was last modified 10:43, 22 Jun 2005.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Hamani_Diori (123 words)

	AllRefer.com - Niger, country, Africa : History : Independence and Its Aftermath (Niger Political Geography) - ...
		Niger achieved full independence on Aug. 3, 1960, and Hamani Diori, the leader of the PPN, became its first president; he was reelected in 1965 and 1970.
		In the early 1960s, sporadic campaigns of rebel warfare were waged by the outlawed Sawaba party (most of whose members lived in exile).
		In 1974, Diori was overthrown in a military coup led by Lt. Col.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/Niger-history-independence-and-its-aftermath.html (573 words)

	Kumm - Global Facts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Niger´s first president Hamani Diori, a cultivated humanist, was overthrown in a military coup in 1974, after the country for several years had been suffering from severe drought in Sahel, the savannah belt south of the Sahara desert.
		President Diori was making an attempt to break the French monopoly over uranium mining in his country, announcing that he had signed a new contract with a Canadian company.
		Immediately after Diori´s ouster, the new military leader of the country, Seyni Kountché, tore up the contract with the Canadians and declared his intention to start fresh negotiations with France.
	www.imfmetal.org /kumm/index.cfm?n=326&c=1817&l=2 (484 words)

	Chronology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		1967: Although the initial Diori cabinet tended to favor the Djerma-Songhai, the public policy was redressed with an increase in the number of Hausa ministers by 1967.
		1974: As a result of the prolonged drought of 1968-74, Diori was ousted by a military coup led by Lt. Col.
		1985 May 29-30: A major Niger's dissident organization, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Niger (FPLN), led by Abdoulaye Diori, the son of ex-President Hamani Diori, was responsible for an armed attack at Tchin Taharaden by 14 Libyan-trained Tuareg tribesmen.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/nigertuachro.htm (6871 words)

	Hamani Diori -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		A teacher after 1936, Diori entered politics full-time following World War II and in 1946 became one of the founders of the Progressive Party of Niger, an affiliate of the African Democratic Rally, a party influential throughout French West Africa.
		"Diori, Hamani." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
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	www.encyclopaedia.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9002817 (418 words)

	Eureka Street - July / August 2005
		This substitute for much-needed infrastructure, and reassertion of Islamic credentials, was an act of appeasement by a bankrupt government as desperate to survive as its people.
		This myopic gesture carried with it echoes of Madame Diori, wife of former President Hamani Diori.
		Her husband’s sorry government–which had led Niger since independence in 1960–fell in April 1974, after it was discovered that food aid sent to relieve the great famines of the 1970s had been hoarded in the homes of government ministers.
	www.eurekastreet.com.au /articles/0507ham.html (1492 words)

	Niger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For its first 14 years as an independent state, Niger was run by a single-party civilian regime under the presidency of Hamani Diori.
		In 1974, a combination of devastating drought and accusations of rampant corruption resulted in a military coup that overthrew the Diori regime.
		Seyni Kountché and a small military group ruled the country until Kountché's death in 1987.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Niger (4001 words)

	Niger Country Guide - History and Government - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing
		Colonised by the French in the late 19th century, Niger became part of French West Africa until 1958.
		Hamani Diori was elected head of state and re-elected in 1965 and 1970.
		His government presided over a period of stability until its latter stages when severe drought from 1968 onwards brought about widespread civil unrest.
	www.columbusguides.com /data/ner/ner580.asp (729 words)

	Niger
		Niger began its history as an independent state under the single-party regime of President Hamani Diori.
		During this period Niger was reasonably quiet and stable with the exceptions of a weak economy and scattered ethnic conflicts.
		That, coupled with accusations of severe government corruption, led to a military coup in 1974 that overthrew Diori.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/niger.htm (388 words)

	Niger: Key events
		Diori Hamani is designated as President by the Constituent Assembly.
		Re-election of Diori Hamani as President of the Republic.
		He is the candidate of the single party, the Nigerien Progress Party – Democratic African Rally (PPN-RDA).
	www.etat.sciencespobordeaux.fr /_anglais/chronologie/niger.html (548 words)

	Recent Niger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The first president of Niger was Hamani Diori.
		Diori held the office of president from 1960 until 1974, at which time he was overthrown in a military coup.
		The leader of this coup, Seyni Kountche claimed the presidency & remained in power until his death in 1987.
	www.alientravelguide.com /history/recent/niger.htm (77 words)

	Niger
		Hamani Diori, the leader of the Parti Progressiste Nigerien, became Head of State.
		In 1974 Diori was arrested, and Lt. Col.
		In December 1987 Sabou proclaimed a general amnesty for all political prisoners.
	www.uiowa.edu /~africart/toc/countries/Niger.html (344 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Drought for Democracy -- Apr. 29, 1974 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Only last month United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim returned from a tour of drought-stricken African states and declared that several of the six nations of the Sahelian strip just beneath the Sahara could literally disappear as a result of the devastation spread by a six-year dry spell.
		Last week, in landlocked Niger, a military coup toppled the democratic government that President Hamani Diori, 57, had conscientiously administered since he led his people to independence from France in 1960.
		Though the coup was largely bloodless, three people were reported killed, including Diori's wife,...
	www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,911224,00.html (146 words)

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		Niger proclaimed its independence in 1960, withdrew from the French Community, and joined the United Nations.
		In 1974 a military coup removed Diori and put Lieutenant Colonel Seyni Kountché into power.
		Kountché released Diori, who had been detained after the 1974 coup, in 1980.
	www.worldsurface.com /browse/static.asp?staticpageid=181 (372 words)

	Africa and Communism - Chapter 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		President Hamani Diori of Niger was almost killed in an Nkrumah-sponsored plot in 1965 and ex-President Maurice Yameogo of the Upper Volta claimed in the same year that Nkrumah had even gone so far as to appoint a new President to succeed Yameogo after his assassination that had been ordered by Nkrumah.
		Bokary, a disgruntled political foe of President Hamani Diori, left Niger in 1959 and made contact with the right circles in Ghana and Algeria, and later was passed on to Peking.
		At the beginning of 1965, the terrorists launched a series of attacks which were intended to culminate in the overthrow of the Diori Government.
	home.wanadoo.nl /rhodesia/metrochap4.html (9942 words)

	Bio
		Hamani Diori, President of the Council of Ministers, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Prime Minister of the Republic of Niger, was born in 1916 at Soudoure in Western Niger.
		A graduate of Ecole Normale in Dakar, he began his career as a teacher in Niamey, Maradi, and Paris.
		He wrote a number of books, essays, and poems that have earned him an established literary prestige.
	www.oau-creation.com /PAGE%204.htm (1421 words)

	MSN Encarta - Archive Article - 1974: Niger
		Cross references refer to Archive articles of the same year.
		In a military coup d'etat on April 15, Lieutenant Colonel Seyni Kountch‚, army chief of staff, overthrew the government of Hamani Diori, Niger's president since independence in 1960.
		Although the two-hour coup was accomplished with little violence, the former president's wife was killed "resisting...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /sidebar_1741582100/1974_Niger.html (158 words)

	Edited Hansard * 1405 * Number 067 (Official Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Speaker, the Journée internationale de la Francophonie, which we are celebrating today, is of particular importance this year.
		On March 20, 1970, three great statesmen, Léopold Senghor, Habib Bourguiba and Hamani Diori, along with officials from 21 states and governments having in common their use of French, created what was to become the Agence internationale de la Francophonie.
		Thirty years later, the states and governments of the Francophonie are meeting again in Niamey, to mark this anniversary, at the invitation of the Secretary General of the Francophonie, Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
	www.parl.gc.ca /36/2/parlbus/chambus/house/debates/067_2000-03-20/han067_1405-e.htm (692 words)

	Adam Carr's Electoral Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Along with the rest of French West Africa, it became self- governing within the French union in 1958 and independent in 1960.
		The nationalist leader Hamani Diori became President, and ran a fairly mild version of the African one-party state system.
		The country was devastated by drought in the early 1970s, and this led directly to the 1974 coup which deposed Diori and brought a military regime to power.
	psephos.adam-carr.net /countries/n/niger/statsniger.shtml (426 words)

	NÍGER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Cuando rompió los lazos coloniales, Niger era el país más pobre de África Occidental francesa con un 80% de la población viviendo en zonas rurales; con sequías pertinaces, suelo erosionado y una explosión demográfica que amenaza a la agricultura y al medio ambiente.
		En las primeras elecciones de la nueva república independiente es elegido presidente Hamani Diori, candidato del Partido Progresista, que se impuso sobre el Sawala (liberación) de Djibo Bakarí.
		En sus primeros años como presidente, Diori ilegalizó el Sawala, obligando a su líder Bakarí a marchar al exilio.
	www.cddhcu.gob.mx /comisiones/exteriores/paises/niger.htm (2455 words)

	Niger - Atlapedia Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In Sept. 1960 Niger became a member of the UN and in Aug. adopted a new constitution.
		During the early and mid 1960's Diori's government survived attacks from the exiled Sawaba forces.
		In the late 1960's and early 1970's a severe drought struck Niger causing widespread food shortages and famine.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/niger.htm (1125 words)

	Western (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		France, despite resistance, established a colony by 1906, and it became part of French West Africa although fighting continued until 1922.
		In 1946, it became a French overseas territory and an autonomous republic within the French Community in 1958, achieving full independence under President Hamani Diori in 1960.
		He retained close ties with France and looked to have established a stable regime with the help of economic benefits resulting from the discovery of uranium deposits.
	www.gaminggeeks.org /Resources/KateMonk/Africa/Western/Niger.htm (332 words)

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