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	AngolaPress - News
		Tandja Mamadou, who belongs to the minority Kanouri ethnic group, was born at Maine Soroa, Diffa region, 1,300 km from Niamey, in the country`s extreme south-eastern part.
		Tandja Mamadou served as a prefect, interior minister and as Niger`s ambassador to Nigeria shortly before Koutche`s death in 1987.
		Tandja Mamadou was once again the MNSD candidate in the November 1999 presidential election, in which he defeated Mamadou Issoufou during the second round.
	www.angolapress-angop.ao /noticia-e.asp?ID=303075 (596 words)

	Tandja Mamadou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tandja Mamadou (born 1938) is a Nigerien politician and current President.
		Tandja is the first democratically elected President of Niger after the coup that put Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in power in 1996.
		Tandja was re-elected with 65.5% of the vote, with Issoufou receiving the remaining 34.5%.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tandja_Mamadou (357 words)

	TANDJA MAMADOU (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Tandja Mamadou (* 1938) ist ein nigerischer Politiker und der amtierende Präsident des Landes.
		Mamadou war 1974 maßgeblich am Sturz des nigerischen Präsidenten Hamani Diori beteiligt.
		In der ersten Runde erhielt Mamadou 32 % der Stimmen.
	www.toonorama.com /encyclopedia/T/Tandja_Mamadou (245 words)

	Encyclopedia: Tandja Mamadou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Tandja Mamadou (born 1938) is a Niger politician and current President.
		Mamadou is the first democratically elected President of Niger after the coup that put Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in power in 1996.
		Mamadou was re-elected with 65.5% of the vote, with Issoufou receiving the remaining 34.5%.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Tandja-Mamadou (361 words)

	Niger
		Tandja Mamadou was elected president in 1999 with 60 percent of the vote in an election that international observers called generally free and fair.
		In November 1999, Tandja Mamadou was elected president with 60 percent of the vote in an election that was considered by international observers to be generally free and fair.
		Tandja Mamadou is the country's first president who is neither Hausa nor Djerma; however, Tuaregs, Arabs, Peuls, Toubous, and Kanouris have few representatives in the Government, and many of these ethnic groups asserted that the Hausa and Djerma groups discriminated against them.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8396.htm (7651 words)

	Tandja Mamadou - Wikipedia
		Tandja Mamadou zu Besuch bei George W. Bush im Oval Office, Juni 2005
		Tandja Mamadou (* 1938) ist ein nigrischer Politiker und der amtierende Präsident des Landes.
		Bei der Stichwahl konnte er sich dann mit 60 % der Stimmen gegen den früheren Ministerpräsidenten Mahamadou Issoufou durchsetzen.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tandja_Mamadou (235 words)

	Tandja Mamadou (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Tandja Mamadou is a Niger politician and current President.
		Mamadou is the first democratically elected President of Niger after the coup that put Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara in power.
		Mamadou and his National Movement for Development Society won the elections and Mamadou office on December 22 1999.
	www.freeglossary.com /Mamadou_Tandja (517 words)

	Niger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Tandja Mamadou was elected to his second 5-year presidential term with 65% of the vote in an election that international observers called generally free and fair.
		President Mamadou Tandja was re-elected in December 2004 and reappointed Hama Amadou as Prime Minister.
		On October 5, 2004 President Tandja announced the official opening of the in the region of Tera and the first Nigerien gold ingot was presented to him.
	www.newlenox.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Niger (3690 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » Niger opposition slams president over food crisis
		Mamadou, who was due to start a tour of some of the worst affected areas on Tuesday, has come under fire at home for failing to publicise the extent of devastating food shortages at an early stage.
		But Mamadou's opponents and civic groups say he is also to blame for not taking an early lead in drawing attention to the crisis, saying that he either failed to grasp the seriousness of the situation or was concerned for his country's image.
		Mamadou, a former army officer who was re-elected in December, will visit the northern regions of Tahoua on Tuesday and Agadez on Wednesday to assess the crisis in Niger, an arid country on the southern edge of the Sahara desert.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/ACIO-6ENLJB?OpenDocument (381 words)

	Tandja wins second term as president in historic first for country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Tandja is the first elected leader of the large but sparsely-populated country, which is two-thirds desert, to have completed a term in office without being toppled by a coup or assassinated.
		Even though four of Tandja’s first-round opponents had called on their supporters to vote for the incumbent, offering the president a safe win, Issoufou increased his share of the ballot by 10 points in the final vote, from a first-round score of 24.6 percent to 34.5 percent in the final round, according to CENI.
		Tandja, who is 66 and a member of the minority Kanori people, has been a constant player in Niger's chequered political and military history over the past three decades.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=44576 (950 words)

	Tandja Mamadou - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		He won the 1999 elections, however, receiving first place, 32%, in the first round, and 60% in the second round, defeating former Prime Minister.
		Tandja and his won the elections, and Tandja took office on December 22, 1999.
		In 2001, students at the staged violent protests against the reduction of their government grants.
	www.marylandheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Tandja_Mamadou (386 words)

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		Niger's President, Tandja Mamadou, looked set yesterday to win a second term as provisional results of a run-off poll put him firmly ahead with more than half the votes counted, the prime minister and election officials said.
		Mamadou, who is credited with bringing some political and economic stability to one of the world's poorest nations, had so far won more than 65% of the vote, according to officials from the country's electoral commission (CENI).
		Mamadou's support was particularly strong in southern centres around the capital Niamey, a hotchpotch of concrete buildings dotting the banks of the broad Niger river which were built in the 1970s on the back of a uranium boom.
	www.polity.org.za /pol/home?show=60790 (401 words)

	Tandja Mamadou Summary
		Mamadou Tandja Head of State (pronounced "MA-ma-dou TAN-ja") "This victory is the victory of all the Nigerien people, of democracy, and of political, social, and institutional stability for a new beginning." The Republic...
		Tandja Mamadou (born 1938) is a Nigerien politician and current President.
		Tandja ran for President in the elections of 1996.
	www.bookrags.com /Tandja_Mamadou (111 words)

	BBCAfrique.com
		Le président Tandja, lui-même ancien militaire, se félicite que l'ancienne puissance coloniale reconnaisse enfin le rôle des soldats africains dans le combat contre l'Allemagne nazie.
		Mamadou Tandja, qui achève son premier mandat à la tête de l'Etat nigérien, évoque aussi son bilan à la présidence.
		Mamadou Tandja répond aux questions de notre correspondant à Paris, Lemine Ould Mohamed Salem.
	www.bbc.co.uk /french/highlights/story/2004/08/040817_tandja.shtml (170 words)

	Vanguard Online Edition : How Niger president emerged as new ECOWAS chief
		ACCRA—Niger President Mamadou Tandja was a "consensus choice" as the new chairman of the Economic Community of West African States, the 15-member bloc’s executive secretary said Thursday.
		Tandja, 66, re-elected last month as president of his vast desert state, succeeds his Ghanaian counterpart John Kufuor at the head of ECOWAS.
		Tandja also hailed the efforts of his predecessor, Kufuor, who held the position for two year-long terms, both in steering ECOWAS and in seeking a solution for peace in Ivory Coast.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/world/w121012005.html (451 words)

	Tandja well placed to win second term as president (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Tandja's main opponent in the first round of the presidential election on 16 November is likely to be Mahamadou Issoufou, leader of the Niger Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS), the largest opposition party in parliament.
		Issoufou was beaten into second place by Tandja and his ruling National Movement for Society and Development (MNSD) in 1999 after Tandja gained the support of former president Mahamane Ousmane in the second round of the election.
		Ousmane beat Tandja in the 1993 presidential election and duly became head of state, only to be deposed by a military coup three years later.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=43271 (737 words)

	ECOWAS elects Niger's Tandja as new head, slams Cote d'Ivoire
		ACCRA, 20 January (IRIN) - President Mamadou Tandja of Niger was elected chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) at the annual summit of the 15-nation body, which is still wrestling to end a civil war in Cote d'Ivoire.
		Tandja's election as the ECOWAS chairman came as somewhat of a surprise.
		Referring to Tandja's pledge to continue pursuing peace efforts in Cote d'Ivoire, an African diplomat stationed in the Ivorian economic capital Abidjan, told IRIN that this week's Accra summit appeared to be a last ditch attempt by ECOWAS to salvage the Ivorian crisis.
	www.copla.org /ecowaschair.htm (786 words)

	Tandja re-elected Niger President with 65% of votes. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Tandja re-elected Niger President with 65% of votes.
		Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger President Mamadou Tandja was Tuesday officially declared winner of Saturday's presidential run-off with 65 percent of the votes.
		Tandja, re-elected for another five-year term, was backed in Saturday's poll by four political parties, whose defeated presidential candidates had won a cumulative 40 percent of the votes in the first round of balloting.
	www.panapress.com /freenews.asp?code=eng065471&dte=07/12/2004 (113 words)

	Graphic Ghana - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Addressing a press conference in Lomé at the end of a two-day diplomatic mission to Togo,President Mamadou Tandja said the ECOWAS high-powered delegation which included President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali was mainly focused on the restoration of Togo back to the normalcy of respect for the constitutional order and legality.
		He identified the fifth aim of the mission to include the establishment of mechanisms mutually acceptable to all contesting parties in order to guarantee the involvement of all political parties at all levels and stages of the preparation and execution of the presidential elections.
		Mamadou Tandja said "it was not normal for political parties to boycott elections at every twist and turn of a nation's political history".
	www.graphicghana.com /article.asp?artid=4630 (536 words)

	Niger's future rests in ballot box - The Washington Times: World Briefings - November 18, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Tandja, 66, but are divided about whether he can secure an outright majority, which would spare the army colonel, first elected in 1999, a runoff.
		Tandja has, despite the country's dearth of resources, managed to achieve regional prominence, serving as chief of UEMOA, the French acronym of the West African economic and monetary union, and playing a role in mediation efforts for crises such as Ivory Coast.
		Tandja's name has been associated with the bloody repression of a Touareg demonstration at Tchintabaraden in May of that year that left 63 persons dead and led to a bitter Touareg uprising from 1991 to 1995.
	www.washingtontimes.com /functions/print.php?StoryID=20041117-094500-4369r (700 words)

	Presidente nigerino Mamadou Tandja, um soldado feito político (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Mamadou Tanja perdeu as primeiras eleições democráticas em 1993 assim como as segundas organizadas pelo general Ibrahim Bare Mainassara em Junho de 1996, depois de lançar um golpe de Estado e dissolver as instituições do país.
		Tandja foi mais uma vez o candidato do MNSD às eleições presidenciais de Novembro de 1999 durante as quais derrotou Mamadou Issoufou na segunda volta.
		Mamadou Tandja deverá tomar posse a 22 de Dezembro de 2004.
	www.panapress.com /freenewspor.asp?code=por016005&dte=09/12/2004 (580 words)

	Niger's Incumbent Faces Challenge in Upcoming Runoff Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Niger President Mamadou Tandja is expected to win a second round runoff Saturday, but he is facing a surging challenge from opposition leader Mahamadou Issoufou.
		President Tandja, a former army colonel, has campaigned on a platform of stability and promises of better living conditions in rural areas.
		Tandja's ruling National Movement for the Development of Society.
	quickstart.clari.net /voa/art/cz/2004-12-01-voa31.html (318 words)

	General News of Wednesday, 19 January 2005
		The others were President Mathieu Kerekou of Benin; President Mamadou Tandja of Niger, President Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, President Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d'Ivoire; President Blaise Compaore of Burkina Faso; Mr Charles Gyude Bryant, Chairman of the National Transitional Government of Liberia (NTGL) and the host, President Kufuor.
		President Tandja made the call in his acceptance speech as the New Chairman of ECOWAS at the just-ended one-day 28th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the 15-member Sub-Regional body in Accra.
		President Tandja called on the factions in Cote d'Ivoire to look beyond their personal interests and make efforts to implement the Linus Marcoussis and the Comprehensive Accra III Agreement to bring peace to their country.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=73747 (1607 words)

	Niger News
		President Mamadou Tandja met on February 14, 2003 with a delegation from the Patriotic Movement of Côte d’Ivoire (MPCI) during their tour of West African capitals designed to exchange ideas with African heads of state in a position to bring together the two parties in the Ivoirian conflict. Mr.
		President Mamadou Tandja was named acting President of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) during the January 2003 summit meeting of the organization in Dakar, Senegal.
		President Mamadou Tandja celebrated the third anniversary of his election as President and the return to democracy in Niger on December 22, 2002.
	www.nigerembassyusa.org /news.html (1555 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Niger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-23)
		Retired Gen. Mamadou Tandja (MNSD) won the November 1999 runoff election (56.6%) out of an original field of seven candidates.
		President Tandja won a second term in two rounds of balloting held in November and December 2004; the elections were considered by international observers to have been free and fair.
		Tandja is the first president of Niger to have survived an entire term in office; Niger's three previous rulers were either ousted in coups or assassinated.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Nir1.htm (720 words)

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