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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 06NIAMEY1008 |
NIGER: REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR ACOTA [...] Post requests human rights certification for the following Nigerien military personnel to participate in the ACOTA ECOWAS Stand by Force (ESF) Headquarters Staff Training Exercise to be held from September 2 - 25 in Accra, Ghana: Major Chaibou Idrissa, Chief of Communications, Army Staff [...] |
2006-09-08 12:33:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PHUM NG |
| 06NIAMEY1009 |
NIGER: REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR CCMR [...] Post requests human rights certification for the following Nigerien military personnel to participate in the CCMR Resident Training Course to be held from September 11--22 in Monterey, California: Lieutenant Colonel Morou Seydou, Chief of Operations, Army Staff 2. Post's files contain [...] |
2006-09-08 12:34:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PHUM NG |
| 06NIAMEY1010 |
NIGER MFA DEMARCHED ON U.S. VIEWS OF UNSC [...] Poloff demarched Niger MFA Secretary General Abdoulaye Dan Maradi on reftel points on September 6. Dan Maradi took note of USG views and agreed with many in principle but did not provide any more substantive reactions. ALLEN [...] |
2006-09-08 12:58:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP KPAO PARM PREL MNUC PTER NG |
| 06NIAMEY1012 |
NIGER MFA DEMARCHED RE: NAM SUMMIT [...] Poloff demarched Niger Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Abdoulaye Dan Maradi on reftel points on SIPDIS September 6. Dan Maradi confirmed that Niger Foreign Minister Aichatou Mindaoudou would head the Niger delegation to the Havana NAM Summit. Dan Maradi took note of reftel pos [...] |
2006-09-08 15:49:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PHUM NG |
| 06NIAMEY1023 |
NIGER: CONSOLIDATING PEACE IN THE AIR AND AZAWAK [...] SUMMARY. MORE THAN 11 YEARS AFTER THE SIGNING OF PEACE ACCORDS, FORMER MEMBERS OF VARIOUS TUAREG RESISTANCE FRONTS HAVE BEGUN TO RECEIVE THE SUPPORT THEY HAVE BEEN PROMISED. ON SEPTEMBER 8, IN A HALF-DAY CEREMONY IN AGADEZ, THE FIRST CHECKS WERE HANDED TO THE HEADS OF 25 COOPERATIVE GROUPS. [...] |
2006-09-12 12:19:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID EAGR SOCI SENV NG |
| 06NIAMEY1051 |
NIGER: CHOLERA OUTBREAK [...] NGOS ARE REPORTING OUTBREAKS OF CHOLERA IN SEVERAL AREAS OF NIGER FOLLOWING FLOODS IN THOSE AREAS. CASES OF CHOLERA HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN BIRNIN KONNI, DIFFA, MARADI, MADAOUA, AND ZINDER. THE FIRST CASES WERE REPORTED ON SEPTEMBER 11 AND THE NUMBER OF CASES, AS WELL AS PLACES WHERE CASES ARE O [...] |
2006-09-18 14:47:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR NG XI XY |
| 06NIAMEY1055 |
SIGNS OF LIFE FOR NIGER'S BEST EXPORT AS NEW [...] (SBU) In a sign of heightened interest in Niger's uranium reserves, a small Canadian exploration company - Northwestern Mineral Ventures Inc. - has begun operations in a 4,000 square kilometer concession centered on the northern Nigerien town of Ingal. World market prices for uranium are risin [...] |
2006-09-19 12:31:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV ENRG EMIN NG |
| 06NIAMEY1074 |
NIGER: REQUESTS FROM ALL CORNERS FOR MORE U.S. [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-22 16:01:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI MARR EAID ASEC NG |
| 06NIAMEY1075 |
POLITICAL DECENTRALIZATION IN NIGER: (STILL) A [...] (C) More than two years have passed since Nigeriens elected local councils to govern the country's 265 communes. The advent of political decentralization - a subject of discussion for most of the nation's first four decades of independence - was greeted with excitement by ordinary Nigeriens wh [...] |
2006-09-22 16:22:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KCOR EAID NG |
| 06NIAMEY1088 |
JAILED JOURNALISTS FAIL ON APPEAL: 18 MONTHS [...] Mamane Abou and Oumarou Keita, jailed publisher and editor-in-chief of Niger's leading opposition weekly, "Le Republican," had appealed their September 1 convictions and eighteen month prison sentences to the Niamey Court of Appeals (reftel A). On September 25, that court ruled against them - [...] |
2006-09-27 16:11:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 06NIAMEY1101 |
NIGER: REQUESTS FROM ALL CORNERS FOR MORE U.S. [...] (C) Summary. Dialogue with Government of Niger (GON) officials (President, Prime Minister, Cabinet Ministers), magistrates/judges, high commissioners, military commanders/police, both First Ladies (Pres. Tandja has two wives), regional leaders, parliamentarians, journalists, educators, women [...] |
2006-09-28 16:11:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SOCI MARR EAID ASEC KPAO NG |
| 06NIAMEY1122 |
DISGRACED FORMER MINISTERS INDICTED BY NATIONAL [...] Hamani Harouna and Ari Ibrahim - both former Ministers of Basic Education and Literacy in the Government of Niger (GON) - were formally indicted by the National Assembly this week, during an extraordinary session devoted primarily to examining the two men's culpability in the public education [...] |
2006-10-04 13:58:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KCOR KMCA NG |
| 06NIAMEY1133 |
TSCTP FUNDED REINSERTION OF EX-COMBATANTS [...] (C) Reftel reported on the first phase of project implementation for the partly TSCTP funded Tuareg ex-combatant reinsertion program. Further information was forthcoming at the second and final ceremony, held in Tahoua on October 6. Poloff represented the mission at an event targeting ex-comba [...] |
2006-10-10 12:31:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER EAID SOCI NG |
| 06NIAMEY1190 |
NIGER: GOVERNMENT MOVES TO EXPEL NOMADIC ARABS [...] (C) Since the evening of Tuesday, October 25, BBC Africa service has been reporting on an attempt by Government of Niger (GON) authorities to expel an uncertain number of nomadic Arabs known as "Mahamid Arabs" from the Chadian border region in the country's extreme east (Diffa region, near Lak [...] |
2006-10-25 15:57:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PSEC PBTS PREF PREL PTER SMIG SOCI |
| 06NIAMEY1192 |
GON "CLARIFIES" POSITION ON MAHAMID ARAB EXPULSION [...] (U) In an evening press conference on October 25, Government of Niger (GON) Spokesman and Minister for Institutional Relations Mohamed Ben-Omar attempted to "clarify" Interior Minister Mounkaila Modi's earlier remarks on the expulsion of the nomadic Mahamid Arabs from the eastern region of the [...] |
2006-10-26 13:02:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PBTS PREF PREL PTER SMIG SOCI NG |
| 06NIAMEY1193 |
ISLAM IN NIGER: SLOW MOTION CULTURAL CHANGE [...] (U) This is the first in a series of cables examining the changing nature of Islam in Niger and its implications for the world's least developed Muslim democracy. Emboffs' recent travel to Maradi - a key trading center on the Niger/Nigeria border in the heart of "Hausaland" - and our examinati [...] |
2006-10-26 13:54:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER EAID SOCI KDEM NG |
| 06NIAMEY1200 |
NIGER: A NEAR MISS ON ABRIDGEMENT OF FREE SPEECH [...] SUMMARY: On October 24, International news organizations (Radio France International and the BBC French Service) reported that the Government of Niger (GON) had banned something called the "social forum," a meeting of anti-globalization activists from Niger and several foreign countries. By d [...] |
2006-10-27 14:06:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM NG |
| 06NIAMEY1203 |
NIGER: GOVERNMENT RESCINDS ORDER TO EXPEL NOMADIC [...] The Government of Niger (GON) Council of Ministers, under the direction of GON President Mamadou Tandja, held a special session on Friday, October 27, to review an October 24 decision (reported reftel) that called for the expulsion of Mahamid Arabs from the Diffa region (eastern Niger borderin [...] |
2006-10-31 11:31:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER SMIG SOCI |
| 06NIAMEY1252 |
November 13 Meeting with Government of Niger (GON) Prime [...] (SBU) Summary. In a November 13 meeting lasting over an hour, Ambassador Allen, accompanied by USAID program manager Mark Wentling, met with Prime Minister Hama Amadou to discuss Niger's selection as a MCC threshold country. PM staff members Secretary General Malam Ari Boucar and Principal Ad [...] |
2006-11-14 15:44:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EAID KMCA NG |
| 06NIAMEY1298 |
MORE ON BULTIMEIER MURDER AND GSPC [...] (C) In a December 3 meeting with DCM and RSO, Haibala Mohamed provided updated and more detailed information on the people he said murdered an Embassy employee in 2000 and on the GSPC in Mali. (Reftels report Mohamed's November 30 and December 1 meetings with Emboffs.) He claimed to have obt [...] |
2006-12-04 10:51:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC KCRM PTER NG |
| 06NIAMEY390 |
NIGER: APRIL 21 AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] BEGIN SUMMARY. Niger has reported no new cases of avian influenza (AI) in many weeks. Culling in the region of Magaria is complete according to the Government of Niger (GON). Samples of bird tissue taken during this culling provided no new positive indications of bird flu outbreaks in Nige [...] |
2006-04-21 13:52:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR TOPEC AIDAC AMGT |
| 06NIAMEY515 |
NIGER: THE LATEST ON PRIVATIZATION [...] BEGIN SUMMARY. Econoff Gage met with representatives of the Government of Niger (GON), companies and the World Bank (IBRD) to produce the following status report on privatization in Niger. GON privatization efforts have advanced since 1996, when Niger codified in law the desire to pri [...] |
2006-05-23 15:05:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV PGOV KPRV XA NG |
| 06NIAMEY531 |
NIGER: MAY 26 AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] BEGIN SUMMARY. A recent bird die off in the area of Magaroufa, south of the Nigerien city of Maradi, shows the menace of bird flu remains in Niger. Although the source of these bird deaths has yet to be confirmed as the H5N1 strain, the presence of H5 was detected locally and samples have be [...] |
2006-05-26 15:57:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR TOPEC AIDAC AMGT |
| 06NIAMEY574 |
HEAVY ABSENTEEISM AS NIGERIEN ASSEMBLY REJECTS [...] (U) In an evening vote on the last day of its spring session, the Nigerien National Assembly, on June 3rd, rejected a bill for the ratification of the Additional Protocol to the African Human and People's Rights Charter relating to Women's Rights in Africa. The additional protocol was adopted [...] |
2006-06-07 15:04:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KPAO SOCI KWMN NG |
| 06NIAMEY584 |
NIGER: ISLAM ANALYSIS [...] (C) Summary: Building on the excellent study of Islamic practices in Niger that the Danish Cooperation (Danida) commissioned this year, excerpts from Islamic press organs such as the monthly newspaper As-Salam and radio Bonferey and discussions with Nigeriens of various backgrounds and degree [...] |
2006-06-08 08:23:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL NG |
| 06NIAMEY672 |
NIGER: GROWING INTEREST IN NIGER'S OIL AND [...] BEGIN SUMMARY. (SBU) Over the past six months, there has been growing interest in Niger's mining and oil sectors by foreign investors, notably from China, Canada and France. As indicated below, the GON is pushing hard to attract investment in the gold, uranium and oil sectors, and to impro [...] |
2006-06-26 14:36:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BTIO EINV EMIN ENRG EPET ECON ELAB PREL PINR |
| 06NIAMEY741 |
BANNING OF WEEKLY ILLUSTRATES SORRY STATE OF [...] On June 28, the Conseil Superieur de la Communication (CSC), the regulatory authority for Nigerien media, banned the publication of the private opposition weekly "L'Opinion." The journal was banned on grounds of having published injurious and defamatory statements directed against Niger Presi [...] |
2006-07-11 14:15:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KPAO NG |
| 06NIAMEY746 |
THE SCOPE OF CORRUPTION AND EDUCATIONAL FAILURE [...] Less than two weeks after they were administered nation-wide, results of the "Brevet d'Etudes du Premier Cycle," (BEPC) and "Certificat de Fin d'Etudes du Premier Degre" (CFEPD) are starting to trickle in. The preliminary results have shocked Nigeriens. While, in a typical year, thirty-five t [...] |
2006-07-12 13:39:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KPAO NG |
| 06NIAMEY748 |
TIP INTERDICTION HAS HAPPY ENDING BUT UNDERSCORES [...] A recent case of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) in the northern Nigerien city of Agadez - for centuries a key caravan town and trade hub uniting sub-Saharan and North Africa - offers many lessons on the nature of the challenge posed by TIP in Niger. The liberation and reinsertion of eight child [...] |
2006-07-12 15:27:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF ELAB KCRM KFRD SMIG NG |
| 06NIAMEY787 |
NIGER: GON MOVES TO IMPROVE INVESTMENT CLIMATE [...] SUMMARY. On July 13, Government of Niger (GON) Prime Minister (PM) Hama Amadou held a meeting with the Council of Ministers and members of the National Counsel of Private Investors (CNIP) to review the latter's recommended reforms to the process of setting up a business in Niger. The PM ordere [...] |
2006-07-26 15:58:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRB ECON KMCA PREL NG |
| 06NIAMEY788 |
GON FIRES TEACHERS AS NIGERIEN SCHOOLS FAIL A [...] Following the country's worst ever academic exam results (reftel), the Government of Niger's (GON) Council of Ministers announced on July 14 the firing without pension of 19 tenured high school teachers and the termination of one contract teacher, in connection with alleged fraud in the admin [...] |
2006-07-26 16:31:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KPAO NG |
| 06NIAMEY847 |
OPPOSITION PUBLISHER, EDITOR JAILED FOR ALLEGING [...] (SBU) On August 4, Maman Abou and Oumarou Keita - respectively the Publisher and the Editor-in-Chief of "Le Republican," Niger's oldest, best respected, and most widely circulated opposition weekly - were arrested and jailed by the Detective Branch of the Nigerien National Police. The two men [...] |
2006-08-14 15:58:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KPAO PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KMCA NG |
| 06NIAMEY857 |
COMPOSITION OF GON UNGA DELEGATION [...] The Niger Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a diplomatic note to post on August 10, informing us of the composition of the Government of Niger's (GON) delegation to the opening of UNGA. The note did not/not request meetings on the sidelines of UNGA. The information below conforms to the standar [...] |
2006-08-15 16:02:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP PREL OTRA KSEP UNGA NG |
| 06NIAMEY864 |
GOVERNMENT OF NIGER (GON) CANCELS MILITARY [...] (S/NF). Summary. Without any prior warning or earlier indications of concern from GON military or civilian officials, GON President Mamadou Tandja cancelled a planned August 15-30, 2006, military exercise on the eve preceding the anticipated arrival of a JCET. To obtain clarity on the reaso [...] |
2006-08-16 17:32:00 | Embassy Niamey | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR PREL NG |
| 06NIAMEY865 |
UPDATE ON JAILED JOURNALISTS: MAMAN ABOU AND [...] As noted reftel, Maman Abou and Oumarou Keita, the publisher and editor-in-chief of the opposition weekly "Le Republican," were tried by the Niamey Regional Court on August 14. Claiming that the men's detention in two separate prisons located far from the capitol was illegal, and that they wo [...] |
2006-08-16 17:37:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR NG |
| 06NIAMEY866 |
AGOA: INFORMATION ON TEXTILE AND APPAREL [...] (U) The following responds to reftel's request for information on Niger's textile and apparel manufacturing capabilities. Niger counts three mid-sized and one larger export oriented textile production firms: Enitex, Ste Alphadi, Herbert Toure, and Ram's Elle et Lui. Details on each follow, and [...] |
2006-08-16 17:44:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTEX EINV ETRD NG |
| 06NIAMEY883 |
GON REPORTS SLIGHTLY LOWER CONSUMER PRICES FOR JULY [...] While popular concern and civil society protest over the cost of various consumer items - ranging from public water and electricity to cell phone rates and gasoline - remained a salient political issue over the last month, the Government of Niger's (GON) Institut National de la Statistique (IN [...] |
2006-08-21 08:16:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI NG |
| 06NIAMEY898 |
MIST SPORTS CARAVAN SCORES HIGH MARKS IN NIGER [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-23 12:09:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR KPAO PREL ASEC EAID SCUL KCOR NG |
| 06NIAMEY904 |
31 EUROPEAN TOURISTS SEIZED AND RELEASED BY [...] On the afternoon of Monday August 21, a group of thirty-one tourists (thirty Italians and one German) were reportedly detained by a group of armed bandits near the eastern Nigerien oasis of Agadem. The group was released on the morning of Tuesday the 22nd. None of the tour group members were [...] |
2006-08-24 06:51:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC KCRM NG |
| 06NIAMEY920 |
NIGER DRAFT POPULATION POLICY DECLARATION [...] SUMMARY. THE MINISTRY OF POPULATION AND SOCIAL ACTION RELEASED SUBJECT DECLARATION IN JULY 2006. EMBASSY BELIEVES IT OF SOME SIGNIFICANCE THAT THE GOVERNMENT OF NIGER (GON) RELEASED SUCH A DECLARATION, PARTICULARLY IN VIEW OF THE STRONG OPPOSITION SHOWN IN THE PAST BY SOME CONSERVATIVE ISLAMIC [...] |
2006-08-30 10:32:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR SOCI SENV NG |
| 06NIAMEY922 |
EXPLORING STRATEGIES FOR THE FIGHT AGAINST [...] (SBU) The Ambassador hosted a lunch on Wednesday August 23rd for key anti-slavery contacts: Ilguilas Weila of Timidria, Niger's preeminent anti-slavery NGO; Moustapha Kadi, a civil society activist and author of a recent and comprehensive book on Nigerien caste-based servitude; Aichatou Bety [...] |
2006-09-01 09:35:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM SOCI KWMN NG |
| 06NIAMEY937 |
TWO ITALIAN TOURISTS REPORTEDLY REMAIN IN THE [...] (C) Summary. Italian Embassy Charge d'Affaires Giovanni Davoli (resident in Abidjan) requested a meeting with Ambassador Allen on Thursday, August 31, to discuss developments in reftel case. Two Italian nationals reportedly remain in the custody of the kidnappers, though there is speculation [...] |
2006-09-05 16:39:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KCRM ASEC CASC NG |
| 06NIAMEY961 |
NIGER CANDIDATES FOR CONFERENCE COMBATING [...] Post nominates the following candidates for participation in the conference. Note: all would benefit from travel funding, and their participation may well be contingent upon it, given the paucity of host government resources available for this sort of conference travel. END NOTE Mr. Mamane [...] |
2006-09-06 11:48:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD AORC ASEC KIPR OTRA NG |
| 06NIAMEY999 |
RSA ADVANCE TEAM VISITS NIAMEY TO REVIEW [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-07 16:58:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC CMGT EAID PREL |
| 07NIAMEY100 |
PRES. TANDJA'S ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN NAILS A [...] In his remarks on Niger's Republic Day, December 18, 2006, President Tandja declared war on corruption in public life. He instructed the Minister of Justice to take action on over 60 cases that had developed since a public education funds scandal came to light last summer (reftels A,B). In the [...] |
2007-02-01 16:56:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KCOR KMCA NG |
| 07NIAMEY1055 |
NIGER: MNJ ATTACKS IN THE AGADEZ REGION CONTINUE [...] Summary. The number of attacks conducted by the Mouvement Nigerien de Justice (MNJ) in the Agadez region continues to rise, with several incidents over the last couple of days, some resulting in the death of Government of Niger (GON) military personnel. Since April 2007, about a dozen land m [...] |
2007-08-23 16:24:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC MARR CASC PINR NG |
| 07NIAMEY1064 |
U.S. AMBASSADOR MEETING WITH GOVERNMENT OF NIGER [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-24 12:10:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS NG |
| 07NIAMEY1112 |
NIGER: TANDJA DECLARES "STATE OF ALERT" IN AGADEZ [...] On August 24, President Tandja declared a "State of Alert" for three months in the Agadez region plagued by armed conflict between the Niger Movement for Justice (MNJ) and government forces. Prime Minister Seini Oumarou undertook a regional diplomatic outreach to seek regional support in resolv [...] |
2007-08-28 09:40:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC MARR CASC PINR NG |
| 07NIAMEY1181 |
NIGER: MIST SPORTS CARAVAN SCORES BIG AGAIN [...] (SBU) Summary. The 16-day Military Information Support Team (MIST) sports caravan/tolerance campaign, lauded by local authorities for its timeliness, reiterated last year's theme "One Family, One Niger." Insecurity in the northern region of Agadez prevented the Nigerien junior girls and junio [...] |
2007-09-12 15:34:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PROP PREL SCUL NGO |
| 07NIAMEY1184 |
NIGER: MNJ ANNOUNCES POSSIBLE RESPITE DURING [...] Mouvement des Nigeriens pour la Justice (MNJ) has no plan to conduct any attacks during Ramadan, but will retaliate if its members are attacked, according to MNJ spokesperson Dr. Dangana Ahmed. The MNJ spokesperson made the announcement during a telephone interview with a local Voice of Ameri [...] |
2007-09-13 16:05:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PINS MOPS SOCI NG |
| 07NIAMEY1188 |
NIGER: GOVERNMENT ENTERS CYBERSPACE [...] The Government of Niger (GON) announced the launch of two websites on September 11, 2007, connecting government institutions and the Presidency to cyberspace for the first time. Both websites (French language) are still a work in progress, but reflect a step forward for the GON institutions. [...] |
2007-09-18 15:32:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | TINT PGOV PREL SOCI NG |
| 07NIAMEY1217 |
NIGER: MEETING WITH HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR THE [...] (C) Summary. On September 26, Ambassador Allen met with the Government of Niger (GON) High Commissioner for the Restoration of Peace, Mohamed Anacko, to discuss the insecurity in northern Niger and to inquire whether the cessation of violence during Ramadan bodes well for possible future neg [...] |
2007-09-26 16:23:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS ASEC PREL NG |
| 07NIAMEY1220 |
Journalist's arrest sparks international concern [...] On September 25 Nigerien journalist Moussa Kaka was charged with violating Niger's national security for alleged collaboration with MNJ rebels fighting against GON forces in the North. Police arrested Kaka on September 20 citing evidence including phone records and recordings of telephone call [...] |
2007-09-27 10:23:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 07NIAMEY1222 |
NIGER: AMBASSADOR'S TRIP REPORT [...] (U) Summary. Over a 16-day period, an Embassy delegation supported a successful basketball caravan and tolerance campaign that covered eight cities in seven of Niger's eight regions. The insecurity in the Agadez region (northern Niger) made it impossible to include a caravan stop there; howev [...] |
2007-09-27 14:01:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI ASEC CASC EAID NG |
| 07NIAMEY123 |
ISLAM IN NIGER (3): FAITH FOLLOWS THE DOLLAR IN [...] (C) NOTE: This is the third in a series of cables (reftels A&B) reporting on the changing nature of Islam in Niger. END NOTE During recent travel to Agadez, Poloff and AIDoff tried to square an interesting circle. Traditional authorities - the Sultan and Grand Mosque Imam - claimed that the Nig [...] |
2007-02-12 10:00:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR EAID SOCI KDEM NG |
| 07NIAMEY1237 |
NIGER: IS TANDJA SEEKING A THIRD TERM? [...] (SBU) There are signs that President Tandja may seek to stay in office beyond the end of his current term in 2009: -- He has put a growing number of government activities under his "Presidential Special Program" and is increasing the amount of time the government-controlled media gives to tho [...] |
2007-10-02 14:27:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NG |
| 07NIAMEY1270 |
NIGER: In News from Abroad GON President Tandja Rules Out [...] (U) Summary. Local newspapers have reported and are commenting on excerpts of Government of Niger (GON) President Mamadou Tandja's October 2 interview with "Le Monde". In that interview Tandja rules out running for a third term and invites combatants in northern Niger to lay down their arms. [...] |
2007-10-10 15:54:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI NG |
| 07NIAMEY128 |
NIGER TRIP REPORTS (1) ILLELA: LESSONS LEARNED FROM SMALL [...] (U) In December, Poloff conducted extensive travel to Niger's Tahoua and Agadez Regions. One outcome was a series of in-house trip reports providing readers with background on the issues, people, and preoccupations of several key towns and sub-regions. With the expectation that such a "virtual [...] |
2007-02-13 08:25:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAGR EAID ECON SOCI SMIG SENV NG |
| 07NIAMEY1301 |
NIGERIEN PRIME MINISTER ADDRESSES DONOR CONCERNS [...] (SBU) The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister addressed donor concerns about the situation in the north and press freedom in an October 19 meeting with diplomats and foreign aid officials. The Prime Minister called the meeting to discuss these issue in Niamey, rather than in the upcoming dono [...] |
2007-10-22 13:29:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS EAID NG |
| 07NIAMEY1346 |
GON Arrests Another Journalist [...] Ibrahim Manzo Diallo, director of biweekly Agadez-based newspaper Air Info, was arrested on October 9, 2007 in Niamey. He remained in custody without formal charges until October 31, 2007, when he was charged with conspiracy and transported to prison. 2. Diallo was arrested at Niamey's inte [...] |
2007-11-02 10:02:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 07NIAMEY1359 |
A BRIDGE FROM CHINA TO NIGER [...] Summary. The November 5, 2007 groundbreaking and laying of the first stone for a long-awaited second bridge in the capital city of Niamey symbolizes an increasingly closer relationship between two friends, the Republic of Niger (RON) and the Peoples Republic of China (PRC). Exchanges between [...] |
2007-11-08 15:40:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ENRG EPET SOCI NG CH |
| 07NIAMEY137 |
NIGER TRIP REPORTS (2) TAHOUA & THE CHALLENGES OF [...] (SBU) This is the second cable in a series commenting on issues examined by Poloff during December travel to northern and central Niger. This edition examines some of the challenges facing Niger's process of political decentralization. Since 2004, the Government of Niger (GON) has tried to devo [...] |
2007-02-14 09:17:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAGR EAID ECON SOCI SMIG NG |
| 07NIAMEY1412 |
NIGER: CORRUPTION SCANDAL HITS CITY HALL [...] (U) In the latest phase of Niger's "clean hands" anti-corruption campaign, the Nigerien authorities have arrested a number of Niamey city officials on corruption charges. The actions started at the top, with the November 1 arrest of the president of the city council (essentially the mayor) of [...] |
2007-11-29 11:56:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON NG |
| 07NIAMEY1418 |
NIGER: FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH DIPLOMATIC [...] (C) Summary. Government of Niger (GON) Foreign Minister Mindaoudou convoked the diplomatic corps ambassadors and resident representatives of international organizations on November 29 to discuss the insecurity in northern Niger. The discussion focused on the GON position with regard to negot [...] |
2007-11-30 14:08:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS PGOV PHUM PTER ASEC CASC NG |
| 07NIAMEY1423 |
NIGER MOVES OUT OF LAST PLACE IN HUMAN DEVELOPMENT [...] Niger has moved out of last place in the recently updated UNDP Human Development Index (HDI). The HDI measures the performance of countries in three dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, as measured by life expectancy at birth; knowledge, as measured by the adult literacy [...] |
2007-12-03 12:35:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI NG |
| 07NIAMEY1430 |
NIGER: THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH [...] (SBU) A truck hit a landmine south of Agadez on December 5. The Nigerien Military has resupplied its garrison in Ifeoruane. The MNJ claims the United States as friend based on a VOA stringer's contact with it. The GON is organizing a regional conference on trafficking. A UN consultant has [...] |
2007-12-05 18:19:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV PREL NG |
| 07NIAMEY1432 |
NIGER: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE CONFLICT IN THE NORTH [...] (SBU) Corinne Dufka, Human Rights Watch senior researcher for West Africa on December 5 briefed DCM and Development Coordinator on her visit to Niamey to look into human rights issues associated with the current conflict in northern Niger. Dufka had met with a number of GON officials, includin [...] |
2007-12-06 09:08:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM MOPS PGOV NG |
| 07NIAMEY1444 |
BUS HITS MINE IN THE SOUTH, PROMINENT TUAREGS [...] (C) A bus hit a landmine near the southern city of Maradi the morning of December 10. It reportedly left a one meter deep crater in the dirt road. The governor of the region told the Ambassador that it occurred 50 meters outside of town on the road to Dakoro. He said six people were injured, [...] |
2007-12-10 14:55:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PHUM NG |
| 07NIAMEY1446 |
NIGER SECURITY UPDATE [...] (U) A vehicle struck a landmine the evening of December 10 near the wrestling stadium in Tahoua. We have heard reports that one person was killed and two people were injured. 2. (U) Tahoua is the site of this year's December 18 Republic Day festivities. President Tandja, a large number of [...] |
2007-12-11 12:44:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS ASEC PGOV PTER NG |
| 07NIAMEY1452 |
Journalists' Arrests Raise Questions about GON Commitment [...] (U) On December 5, 2007 two journalists of the private biweekly L'Enqueteur were arrested and held in custody in Niamey. Editor/journalist Ibrahim Souley and owner/journalist Soumana Maiga were detained in response to a libel complaint filed by Niger's Minister of Economy and Finance Mahamane A [...] |
2007-12-12 15:39:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 07NIAMEY1453 |
NIGER SECURITY UPDATE -- DECEMBER 12 [...] (U) On postings on its web site, the MNJ has denied planting the landmine in Tahoua and blamed the Nigerien Armed Forces (FAN) for the mine, as it had previously done regarding the Maradi landmine (ref A). It also warned against the GON going ahead with the December 18 Republic Day festivitie [...] |
2007-12-12 15:39:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PTER PGOV NG |
| 07NIAMEY1478 |
NIGER: WHAT DIDN'T HAPPEN ON DECEMBER 18 [...] (C) Niger's national day celebration went off without incident despite MNJ threats against it. The GON and MNJ continue to blame each other for landmines in the south. There was a reported attempt to lay a mine in the southern town of Tanout on December 18. The MNJ's recent actions have not [...] |
2007-12-21 09:32:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV ASEC NG |
| 07NIAMEY158 |
IN LAST PLACE AND FALLING: THE PROBLEM OF EDUCATION IN [...] Niger's education system ranks among the worst in the world. It suffers from a crumbling infrastructure, a lack of resources and a teacher corps that is under-trained and demoralized. Niger's woes are compounded by a population growth rate of 3.4%, one of the highest in the world. Corruption [...] |
2007-02-22 15:59:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO KMCA NG |
| 07NIAMEY167 |
NIGER TRIP REPORTS (3) THE NOMADIC ZONE [...] (SBU) This is the third cable in a series of trip reports (reftels A&B) that examine conditions, contacts, and political issues in central and northern Niger. This edition takes a look at the nomadic zone known as the Azaouagh (or Azawak). A large and sparsely populated zone in the northern par [...] |
2007-02-23 12:39:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID ECON SOCI NG |
| 07NIAMEY22 |
FOUR YEARS ON, NIGERIEN NGO UP IN ARMS OVER NIGER [...] Apparently prompted by the execution of Saddam Hussein, on Sunday, January 7, a Nigerien NGO gave a press release denouncing the USG for its "false accusation against Niger for the sale of uranium to Iraq." The NGO, CODDAE - the "Collective for the Defense of Rights to Energy in Niger" - is m [...] |
2007-01-10 15:18:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAO NG |
| 07NIAMEY23 |
NIGER: THREE PILLARS OF TRADITIONAL SLAVERY - AND [...] Traditional caste-based servitude in Niger has always rested on three pillars: a lack of economic options for slaves, who tend to live in the least developed regions of the world's least developed country; a lack of social mobility in slaves' typically small, isolated, nomadic communities; an [...] |
2007-01-10 15:19:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI ELAB NG |
| 07NIAMEY26 |
TIP IN A TRANSIT TOWN: AGADEZ, NIGER [...] During recent travel to Agadez, the principal city of northern Niger, Poloff explored the town's oldest industry - trafficking. Whether in items as benign as cars or as dangerous as drugs and guns, Agadez excels at both legal and illicit cross-border trade. The movement of persons is a perenn [...] |
2007-01-10 15:28:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SMIG SOCI KCRM KWMN NG |
| 07NIAMEY40 |
NIGER: HUMAN RIGHTS (LEAHY) VETTINGS FOR BILATERAL [...] The following units have been identified by the Nigerien Military to participate in exercises with US forces during calendar year 2007: The Anti-Terrorist Company (Compagnie Antiterroriste), the 322 Airborne Company (based in Maradi), and the 424 Infantry Company (based in Tillia). 2. The [...] |
2007-01-16 12:57:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PHUM NG |
| 07NIAMEY41 |
NIGER: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR THE NATIONAL [...] Post requests human rights certification for the following Nigerien military personnel to participate in the National Defense University International Counterterrorism Fellows Program to be held from July 2007 to June 1, 2008 in Washington, D.C.: Major Moussa Salaou Barmou, Commander of the P [...] |
2007-01-16 12:57:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS MARR PHUM NG |
| 07NIAMEY531 |
AGADEZ: THE KHADAFI SHOW [...] (U) As reported reftel A, Libyan leader Mouammar El Khadafi celebrated Mouloud with regional heads of state in the northern Nigerien city of Agadez. While avoiding the sort of controversial pronouncements -- on, inter alia, an independent Tuareg state in the Sahel -- that characterized his 200 [...] |
2007-04-04 15:55:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL LY NG |
| 07NIAMEY610 |
NIGER TRIP REPORTS (4) ARLIT: PORTRAIT OF A BOOM TOWN [...] (U) This is the forth in a series of trip report cables documenting life, leaders, and issues in several key towns and regions (reftels A, B, C), of central and northern Niger. 2. (SBU) Arlit, in northern Niger, owes its existence and prosperity to uranium mining. As world prices rise and th [...] |
2007-04-24 16:21:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PAGR ECON EMIN EINV SENV NG |
| 07NIAMEY616 |
NIGERIEN PRESIDENT CONCERNED WITH SMUGGLING [...] (U) President Tandja devoted much of his April 23 speech marking the 12th anniversary of the agreement ending the Tuareg rebellion to blaming drug and weapons traffickers for recent insecurity in the north. 2. (SBU) Tandja also expressed his concern about drug trafficking to the UNDP resid [...] |
2007-04-27 12:39:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SNAR NG |
| 07NIAMEY62 |
NORTHERN NIGER POST KIDAL: UN STAFF / VOLUNTEERS [...] (C) During recent travel to Tahoua, a city in north-central Niger, Poloff interacted with several United Nations Volunteers (UNVs) who work with Tuareg and Arab ex-combatants in the country's northern Azaouagh region. The Azaouagh borders Mali's Kidal region, and is an area of concern for sev [...] |
2007-01-24 11:20:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PGOV PTER NG |
| 07NIAMEY625 |
NIGER: A PESSIMISTIC ASSESSMENT OF GON-TUAREG [...] (C) Summary: Mohamed Anacko, the man responsible for implementing the 1995 agreement ending the Tuareg rebellion, fears that President Tandja's desire for a military solution to the recent Tuareg uprising risks turning it into a full fledged rebellion that could affect the entire region. He [...] |
2007-05-03 12:06:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV PREL CASC EMIN NG |
| 07NIAMEY635 |
NIGER: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: Opposition party officials are concerned about the stalled trial regarding corruption in the education sector, student violence, and the lack of action during the current Assembly session. Their biggest concern, however, is the recent violence in the north, which they said could t [...] |
2007-05-07 13:30:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NG |
| 07NIAMEY636 |
NIGER: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH INTERIOR MINISTER [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Abouba hinted that the GON was negotiating with dissident Tuaregs, but he largely dismissed their grievances. He feared alliances developing involving the Tuareg rebels, drug traffickers, AQIM and the Nigerian Taliban. He did not appear to be particularly seize [...] |
2007-05-07 13:30:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL MOPS EMIN CASC PINR NG |
| 07NIAMEY639 |
NIGER: FRENCH AMBASSADOR ON THE SECURITY SITUATION [...] (C) Summary: The French Ambassador to Niger believes a GON attempt to defeat Tuareg dissidents risks turning bandits and drug smugglers into something much worse, possibly to include allies of AQIM. The Nigerien Armed Forces (FAN) cannot defeat the Mouvement des Nigerien pour la Justice (MNJ), [...] |
2007-05-08 11:55:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS MASS FR NG |
| 07NIAMEY641 |
NIGER PROFITS FROM URANIUM IN REVITALIZED MARKET [...] (C) For the first time since 1983, the Government of Niger (GON) will exercise its right to purchase and sell some of the country's uranium production this year. Moreover, it may sell its share (anticipated to be 300 tons this year and as much as 1,045 tons/year from 2008) to an American power [...] |
2007-05-08 16:33:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV EMIN ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL NG BBSR BTIO |
| 07NIAMEY646 |
NIGER: MINISTER OF DEFENSE ASKS USG NOT TO ABANDON [...] (C) Summary. Government of Niger (GON) Defense Minister (DefMin), Hassane Souley, requested a meeting with Ambassador Allen to ask for USG support of GON military efforts to deal with Tuareg dissidents in the North. The GON seeks military support, especially intelligence assistance. The DefMi [...] |
2007-05-09 16:29:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL NG |
| 07NIAMEY656 |
NIGER: GON EFFORTS REGARDING TUAREG DISSIDENTS, [...] Nigerien police officer and Tuareg ex-combatant Daouada Algabid on May 10 told DCM that a high-level French military delegation is in Niamey to ask the GON to allow French troops currently in Chad to come to Niger to provide security for the French Uranium company AREVA's mines near Arlit. Th [...] |
2007-05-11 10:44:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL MOPS FR NG |
| 07NIAMEY691 |
DRUGS THROUGH NIGER? LOCAL VIEWS ON NARCOTICS [...] (SBU) On May 7, Poloff met with officials in the Nigerien border town of Birni N'Konni, ninety kilometers north of Sokoto, Nigeria. The local Prefect, chief judge, and Procurer (prosecutor) described drug seizures and their perceptions of a drug trafficking route through the town and through Ni [...] |
2007-05-21 11:42:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR KCRM NG |
| 07NIAMEY703 |
NIGER AND THE MAPUTO PROTOCOL: A CLERIC'S [...] (SBU) After trying and failing to get the Additional Protocol to the African Human and People's Rights Charter Relating to Women's Rights in Africa (the Maputo Protocol) adopted by the National Assembly last year (reftel A), the Government of Niger (GON) is trying again. Women's NGOs, GON offi [...] |
2007-05-22 09:18:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI KWMN PHUM NG |
| 07NIAMEY713 |
NIGER: MINISTRY OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS (MRA) [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador, accompanied by locally-engaged staff Political Assistant (notetaker), paid a May 16 courtesy call on the recently-appointed Cabinet Minister for the Ministry of Religious Affairs (MRA), Issaka Labo. The MRA's responsibilities include a security element complementa [...] |
2007-05-22 11:36:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI PINR NG |
| 07NIAMEY714 |
COLD CASE: SHARI'A AND THE MIGRATION OF VICE [...] Open-source reporting and some academic studies have suggested that the imposition of Shari'a in northern Nigeria led to an exodus of prostitutes, petty criminals, and bar owners to the southern frontier zones of Niger. Nigerien Hausaland, these reports suggested, saw a considerable increase [...] |
2007-05-22 12:47:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KWMN SOCI EAID SMIG NG |
| 07NIAMEY728 |
NIGER: KORANIC SCHOOLS CALL FOR HELP [...] (C) During recent travel across southern Niger, Poloff interacted with traditional and religious leaders and religious educators. In each instance, they were concerned by the quality and diversity of instruction they were able to offer in their madrassas. Religious leaders felt that many Niger [...] |
2007-05-24 13:31:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PINR SCUL SOCI PGOV PREL PTER NG |
| 07NIAMEY737 |
NIGER: PARLIAMENT PLAYS WITH PM CENSURE MOTION [...] (U) On Saturday the 26th, the opposition in Niger's National Assembly raised a censure motion against the coalition government of Prime Minister (PM) Hama Amadou, alleging negligence in its management of the investigation of a public school funds scandal rumored to implicate the PM (reftel). A [...] |
2007-05-29 13:10:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KCOR NG |
| 07NIAMEY739 |
ISLAM IN NIGER (4): ATTITUDES TOWARD IZALA IN [...] (U) NOTE: This is the fourth in a series of cables (reftels A,B,C) reporting on the changing nature of Islam in Niger. END NOTE ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Previous cables in this series examined the rise, in Niger, of a Wahhabist-inspired form of Islamic fundamentalism from the Sha [...] |
2007-05-29 15:48:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID KDEM PGOV PINR PTER SOCI KISL NG |
| 07NIAMEY742 |
ALIVE AND WELL: PROFILES OF TRADITIONAL [...] During recent travel Poloff examined the role of traditional chiefs in Niger. Characterized since colonialism by a highly-centralized state that often undercut traditional rulers, Niger has recently embraced a system of political decentralization based on democratically elected local governme [...] |
2007-05-30 16:04:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI NG |
| 07NIAMEY756 |
PM CENSURE: TIDE TURNS AGAINST HAMA? [...] (C) As reported reftel, the Nigerien National Assembly has been considering a motion of censure against the government of Prime Minister Hama Amadou since Saturday. After two days of suspension, the Assembly re-convened this afternoon. Mission contacts indicate that the ground may have shifted [...] |
2007-05-31 14:38:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM KCOR NG |
| 07NIAMEY76 |
ISLAM IN NIGER (2): STUMBLING BLOCKS FOR IZALA IN [...] (C) Reftel offered several themes to be examined in a series of cables on Islam in Niger. In this edition, Poloff reports on conversations with a prominent Imam that illuminate the extent of fundamentalist penetration into the central Nigerien region of Tahoua - an area linked by proximity and [...] |
2007-01-26 08:52:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER PINR EAID SOCI KDEM NG |
| 07NIAMEY763 |
GON FALLS ON CENSURE MOTION; NEW PM AND CABINET WILL [...] On May 31, the National Assembly of Niger passed (by 62 votes out of 113) a motion of no confidence moved by opposition MPs against the GON. Prime Minister Hama Amadou and all of the GON's 31 ministers must now resign. President Mamadou Tandja will name a new PM. Yesterday's events brought an e [...] |
2007-06-01 13:11:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KCOR NG |
| 07NIAMEY783 |
NIGER: PRESIDENT TANDJA NAMES NEW PRIME MINISTER TO [...] President Tandja appointed Seini Oumarou as Prime Minister to replace Hama Amadou, who was removed by the National Assembly's no confidence vote. The National Assembly's removal of the Prime Minister through constitutional means is a positive sign that Niger's relatively new democratic culture [...] |
2007-06-07 10:35:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KCOR NG |
| 07NIAMEY787 |
NIGER: PRESIDENT TANDJA NAMES NEW CABINET [...] Summary: President Tandja, on June 9, announced a new cabinet made up of 32 members (including the Prime Minister), to replace the one that was dissolved following the National Assembly's May 31 no confidence vote on the former Prime Minister (ref a). Nineteen incumbent ministers, including t [...] |
2007-06-11 13:48:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM KCOR NG |
| 07NIAMEY80 |
NIGER: TOLERANCE FOR EVANGELIST DR. RICHARD ROBERTS' [...] Summary. The Republic of Niger laid out the welcome mat for the January 24-27 visit of Oral Roberts University (ORU) President and Evangelist Dr. Richard Roberts and his delegation. Print and broadcast media, notably "Le Sahel" (government newspaper) and "Tele-Sahel" (the national news stati [...] |
2007-01-26 11:17:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL KIRF PHUM KISL KWMN NG |
| 07NIAMEY847 |
NIGERIEN PRESIDENT CONCERNED WITH SMUGGLING -- [...] (C) CHG Koran and RSO (Acting) Phillip met with Amadou Moumouni, Director General de la Police Nationale, at AmEmbassy Niamey on June 25, 2007 to discuss the matters addressed in reftel. The Director General confirmed that Nigerien authorities had seized some 10 tons of drugs since the begin [...] |
2007-06-26 11:11:00 | Embassy Niamey | SECRET | ASEC PTER CASC |
| 07NIAMEY848 |
NIGERIEN PRESIDENT CONCERNED WITH SMUGGLING -- [...] No summary [...] |
2007-06-26 11:12:00 | Embassy Niamey | SECRET | ASEC PTER CASC |
| 07NIAMEY995 |
MORE FIGHTING REPORTED IN NORTHERN NIGER [...] The website of the Mouvement des Nigeriens pour la Justice (MNJ) on August 10 reported that on the night of August 9/10 it attacked military camps in Tchirozerine (some 25 miles north of Agadez on the road to Arlit) and inflicted heavy casualties on government forces. It reminds "those who h [...] |
2007-08-10 11:47:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS PGOV EMIN NG |
| 08NIAMEY1001 |
Embassy Iftaar Series Generates Substantial Goodwill During [...] As part of post's Islamic outreach initiatives, Embassy Niamey sponsored a series of Iftaar dinners during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Four separate Iftaars were hosted by the Ambassador, the Charge d'Affaires, the PAO and the Public Affairs Section (PAS). 2. On September 10, Ambass [...] |
2008-10-02 09:12:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO KISL NG |
| 08NIAMEY1007 |
Charges Stick, but Kaka Granted Provisional Release [...] (U) On October 7, the Nigerien High Court of Appeals affirmed new charges against RFI affiliate director Moussa Kaka at the request of state prosecutors, but granted him "immediate, provisional release" from prison. No trial date has been set. 2. (U) Kaka was arrested on September 20, 2007, [...] |
2008-10-07 13:48:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY1039 |
PRO-FORMER PM HAMA AMADOU SUPPORT RALLY DRAWS [...] (C) According to Embassy Niamey observers, on October 19, the Mouvement National de la Societe de Developpement (MNSD) held a large rally for several thousand members at the Place de la Concertation, an open-air public square in Niamey from approximately 0900 ) 1130 (Ref A). The event speaker [...] |
2008-10-20 14:52:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV SOCI KCOR ASEC CASC NG |
| 08NIAMEY1056 |
NIGER: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR THE EXERCISE FLINTLOCK, [...] The following individual within the FAN (Armed Forces of Niger) has been identified to attend the EUCOM-funded Exercise FLINTLOCK 2009 Course at Rota Naval Air Base, Spain, November 03-19, 2008. He replaces Moussa Salaou Barmou. Ref. a) Dennison - Whitaker DTD, October 17, 2008. Ref. b)cable [...] |
2008-10-23 11:53:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PHUM NG |
| 08NIAMEY1059 |
NIGER: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR THE CONUS BORDER TRAINING [...] The following individuals within the FAN (Armed Forces of Niger) have been identified to attend the Defense Institute of International Legal Studies (DIILS) sponsored CONUS Border Training in San Diego, CA from 16-21 November 2008: Name: Mohamadou Baraze DOB: 28 November, 1954 POB: Kara Ka [...] |
2008-10-27 05:10:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PHUM NG |
| 08NIAMEY1062 |
NIGER: WOMAN OF COURAGE NOMINEE HADIJATOU MANI [...] Embassy Niamey enthusiastically nominates Ms. Hadijatou Mani, a 24-year old woman born into caste-based servitude (an inherited status from her mother), who challenged the vestiges of a long-standing affront to humanity, the institution of slavery. On October 27, 2008, she won an historic, pr [...] |
2008-10-30 16:43:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM SOCI SCUL NG |
| 08NIAMEY1066 |
NIGER: CHINESE GOV'T BRINGS DREAM TO BUILD AN OIL REFINERY [...] Summary. The Government of Niger's (GON) dream to build an oil refinery moved a step closer to becoming reality at an elaborate first-stone laying ceremony on October 27, 2008. The GON (all Cabinet Ministers, many National Assembly Members), traditional chiefs, political party heads, diploma [...] |
2008-11-03 10:59:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET EINV ECON SOCI PGOV SENV NG |
| 08NIAMEY1068 |
NIAMEY VISAS VIPER REPORT FOR OCTOBER 2008 [...] Post's Visas Viper Committee met on November 3, 2008. No Visas Viper information was received. 2. Visas Viper Post Coordinator is Conoff Karan Swaner. Visas Viper Committee Chair/DCM Eric Whitaker convened the meeting and requested information from committee members. ALLEN [...] |
2008-11-04 13:07:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR CMGT ASEC PINR PTER PREL NG |
| 08NIAMEY1069 |
Another Journalist Arrested in Niger [...] (U) SUMMARY. On October 29, Nigerien journalist Alzouma Zakari was arrested by Nigerien Judicial Police after alleging inappropriate involvement by Minister of Interior Albade Abouba in a government contract to provide airline transportation during the 2008 Hajj. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) Zakar [...] |
2008-11-05 04:47:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY1072 |
NIGER: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR THE COUNTERTERRORISM [...] The following individuals have been identified to attend the Counterterrorism Capacity Building Workshop in Algiers, Algeria, November 30 to December 05, 2008: Name: Madame Ary Tanimoune Mariama DOB: 02 August 1962 POB: Niamey, Niger Title: Division Chief, Office of the Minister of Foreign [...] |
2008-11-06 13:32:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PHUM NG |
| 08NIAMEY1073 |
OFFICIAL CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO THE HONORABLE [...] No summary [...] |
2008-11-06 15:08:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP NG |
| 08NIAMEY1081 |
NIGER: BURKINA FASO MEMBERSHIP IN THE TRANS-SAHARA [...] (C) On November 4, 2008, using reftel talking points, Ambassador Allen raised with Government of Niger (GON) Foreign Minister (FM) Aichatou Mindaoudou the USG interest in inviting the Government of Burkina Faso to participate in the TSCTP. When asked for the GON's views on the matter and sugg [...] |
2008-11-10 11:36:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NG UV XA XI |
| 08NIAMEY1083 |
NIGER: BURKINA FASO MEMBERSHIP IN THE TRANS-SAHARA [...] (C) On November 4, 2008, using reftel talking points, Ambassador Allen raised with Government of Niger (GON) Foreign Minister (FM) Aichatou Mindaoudou the USG interest in inviting the Government of Burkina Faso to participate in the TSCTP. When asked for the GON's views on the matter and sugg [...] |
2008-11-10 11:46:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER NG UV XA XI |
| 08NIAMEY1084 |
NIGER: MNSD LEADERS SELECT PM OUMAROU AS INTERIM PARTY [...] (U) On November 9, the ruling party Mouvement National de la Societe de Developpement (MNSD) convened a leadership meeting at its headquarters to select an interim party president. After a lengthy day of consultations, party leadership selected current Prime Minister Seini Oumarou. Party lead [...] |
2008-11-10 13:49:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR ASEC NG |
| 08NIAMEY1092 |
Nigerien Journalist Convicted, Released [...] On November 11, a local court convicted Nigerien journalist Alzouma Zakari under Niger's criminal libel statute. The court sentenced him to three months imprisonment (sentence suspended), fined him 100,000 F CFA (approximately $200), and released him. He must also pay symbolic damages in the [...] |
2008-11-14 05:23:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY1093 |
NIGER: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PRESIDENT TANDJA ON [...] (U) Summary. On November 11, Ambassador Allen, accompanied by USAID Country Program Manager (CPM) Wentling and USAID/MCC Threshold Program Manager (TPM) Schulman, met with President Tandja, his Cabinet Director Maman and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Dagra to discuss supplemental food s [...] |
2008-11-14 11:27:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KMCA EAID SOCI SCUL NG |
| 08NIAMEY1095 |
More Arrests Under Niger's Criminal Libel Laws [...] On November 12, Nigerien authorities arrested Moussa Aksar, publication director for independent weekly newspaper "L'Evenement" and his assistant Sani Aboubacar following a complaint by Ibrahim Foukori, director of power company NIGELEC. 2. Foukori filed a criminal libel complaint against th [...] |
2008-11-17 04:41:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY1104 |
NIGER - TIP WATCHLIST INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] Summary: Niger is taking several steps to reduce the incidence and consequences of trafficking in persons and raise public awareness, but needs to pass long-awaited legislation to give authorities leverage to prosecute traffickers. End summary. 2. Updates over the past year are as follows: [...] |
2008-11-19 04:41:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KTIP KWMN KCRM SOCI SCUL NG |
| 08NIAMEY1105 |
NIGER: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR FAN MEMBERS TO ATTEND [...] The following individuals have been identified to attend the Extended IMET HIV Conference in San Antonio, TX, from 06-12 December 2008. Name: Mahaman Oumarou Tchiany Rank: Brigadier General DOB: 18 June 1950 POB: Tessaoua, Niger Title: Director of Military Health Office, FAN Name: Bo [...] |
2008-11-19 04:41:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PHUM NG |
| 08NIAMEY1110 |
NIAMEY - LESSONS LEARNED FROM SEPTEMBER 2008 [...] (U) Embassy Niamey participated in a two-day Crisis Management Exercise (CME) from September 8 - 9, 2008. The exercise on September 8 centered around a PowerPoint presentation designed to inform the Locally Engaged Staff (LES) about how an Embassy might go about resolving or responding to a [...] |
2008-11-21 05:20:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC NG AEMR AMGT CASC ML UV LI |
| 08NIAMEY1111 |
CIVIL SOCIETY, OPPOSITION REACT TO CALLS FOR THIRD TERM [...] Over the past several months speculation has mounted in the local media, within civil society, and in political circles about President Tandja's political intentions to seek a third term through an amendment to the country's constitution, which limits the presidential office to two five-year t [...] |
2008-11-21 10:02:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM SOCI PHUM NG |
| 08NIAMEY1112 |
OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS [...] Ambassador delivered reftel talking points on 11/24 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary General (SG) Dan Maradi, in the absence of Foreign Minister Mindaoudou (out of the country), and left as an aide-memoire a list of the one-sided resolutions (reftel, paragraph six). With regard to the [...] |
2008-11-24 14:03:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA IS PA NG |
| 08NIAMEY1114 |
NIGER: COURTESY CALL BY ICRC MISSION CHIEF [...] (SBU) On October 29, International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Mission Chief Nicolai Panke paid a courtesy call on Ambassador Allen, with DCM and RSO joining. Panke, who arrived in Niger in August 2008, said the ICRC's staff included seven expatriates, including one based in Agadez, and [...] |
2008-11-25 05:18:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM EAID PGOV AORC ICRC NG |
| 08NIAMEY1116 |
NIGER: U.S. INSTITUTE OF PEACE (USIP) NEGOTIATION TRAINING [...] Summary. Government of Niger (GON) High Commissioner for the Restoration of Peace (HCRP) Mohamed Anacko made a request in June 2008 (reftel) to former U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs' Deputy Assistant Secretary Todd Moss for assistance in securing negotiation and conflict r [...] |
2008-11-25 10:07:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SOCI PHUM SCUL EAID NG |
| 08NIAMEY1123 |
NIGER: MONTREAL CONVENTION RATIFICATION STILL UP IN THE [...] DCM and Pol Specialist delivered reftel demarche - talking points and Q and As in both French and English - to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation on November 12 and subsequently to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation on November 25. 2. At the latter ministry, Secretar [...] |
2008-12-01 05:25:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON ICAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY1128 |
NIAMEY VISAS VIPER REPORT FOR NOVEMBER 2008 [...] Post's Visas Viper Committee met on December 1, 2008. No Visas Viper information was received. 2. Visas Viper Post Coordinator is Conoff Karan Swaner. Visas Viper Committee Chair/DCM Eric Whitaker convened the meeting and requested information from committee members. ALLEN [...] |
2008-12-01 13:51:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR CMGT ASEC PINR PTER PREL NG |
| 08NIAMEY1129 |
NIAMEY VISAS VIPER REPORT FOR NOVEMBER 2008 [...] Post's Visas Viper Committee met on December 1, 2008. No Visas Viper information was received. 2. Visas Viper Post Coordinator is Conoff Karan Swaner. Visas Viper Committee Chair/DCM Eric Whitaker convened the meeting and requested information from committee members. ALLEN [...] |
2008-12-01 13:51:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KVPR CMGT ASEC PINR PTER PREL NG |
| 08NIAMEY113 |
NIGER: AMBASSADOR JANUARY 24 MEETING WITH GON [...] (U) Summary. On January 24, I met with Government of Niger (GON) Prime Minister (PM) Seini Oumarou to discuss the status of Niger,s MCA Threshold Program, human rights issues (including reports of military/police abuse of civilians and whether the GON or independent organizations were invest [...] |
2008-01-25 11:30:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL EAID NG |
| 08NIAMEY1133 |
NIGER: NOVEMBER 25-27, 2008 REGIONAL SEMINAR ON TERRORISM [...] Summary. The Government of Niger (GON), in cooperation with the Government of France (GOF), hosted in Niamey a regional seminar on terrorism and trafficking from November 25-27, 2008. The GON Minister of Justice (MOJ) and French Ambassador delivered opening and closing remarks at the seminar, [...] |
2008-12-03 11:28:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER SMIG SNAR PHUM ASEC MCAP KTFN NG XY |
| 08NIAMEY1135 |
NIGER: POL/ECON UPDATE FOR NOVEMBER 15 - 30, 2008 [...] The following is an Embassy Niger compilation of political and economic highlights for the second half of November 2008 not otherwise covered in mission reporting. This report covers the following issues: -- Travel Warning Extended for the North -- Prison Letter from Former PM Hama Amadou [...] |
2008-12-03 16:44:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI SCUL EAGR EAID NG |
| 08NIAMEY1139 |
NIGER: GON EXPANDS HIGHER ED TO NIGER'S INTERIOR [...] SUMMARY: On October 28-30, 2008 the GON opened three new University Institutes of Technology (IUTs) in the interior cities of Zinder, Maradi, and Tahoua. This represents the largest expansion of the national university system since 1985. According to GON officials, the purpose of the IUTs is [...] |
2008-12-04 14:03:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL EAGR EAID NG |
| 08NIAMEY115 |
NIGER: TUAREG MINISTER'S VIEWS ON CURRENT EVENTS [...] (C) In a January 28 meeting with the Embassy Development Coordinator, Environment Minister Mohamed Akotey offered the following observations on recent developments. 2. (C) Akotey said that it is definitely NOT the MNJ which is laying mines in urban areas. He said that "they" are laying min [...] |
2008-01-29 11:24:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MOPS SNAR ASEC KPAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY1151 |
BG HIGGINS VISITS NIGER; DEFENSE MINISTER PROVIDES [...] (C) Summary: During a December 4 courtesy call by visiting Commander of Special Operations ) Africa Brigadier General Patrick Higgins, Minister of National Defense Djida Hamadou welcomed the latter,s familiarization visit to Niger and commended AFRICOM's progress. Minister Hamadou provided a [...] |
2008-12-11 10:16:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM MASS PGOV PREL MARR MOPS EAID NG |
| 08NIAMEY1160 |
NIAMEY EAC - UNEXPLAINED DISAPPEARANCE OF UN [...] (S) The EAC discussed the unexplained disappearance of UN Special Envoy Robert Fowler, Special Assistant Louis Guay, and their unidentified local driver. Fowler and Guay are both Canadian nationals. The EAC met twice on December 15 to discuss this; first, as an initial report, and second, t [...] |
2008-12-15 15:04:00 | Embassy Niamey | SECRET | ASEC CASC PGOV PREL NG |
| 08NIAMEY1162 |
(S) NIGER: ENCOURAGING AFRICAN STATES TO TERMINATE [...] (S) DCM presented subject demarche to MFA Secretary General Abdoulaye Dan Maradi on December 15, with talking points in non-papers in both French and English. Sec Gen Dan Maradi understood the issue clearly, and confirmed that Niger did not have defense cooperation arrangements with Iran, and [...] |
2008-12-15 15:45:00 | Embassy Niamey | SECRET | MARR MASS PARM PREL IR NG |
| 08NIAMEY1166 |
NIGER: DETAILS AND UPDATE ON MISSING UNITED [...] (S/NF) Summary. The unexplained disappearances of United Nations Special Envoy (SE) Robert Fowler, Special Assistant Louis Guay and their unidentified driver remains a mystery. The Government of Niger (GON) initial reaction generally has been one of anger, placing blame on the SE for allegedl [...] |
2008-12-16 15:20:00 | Embassy Niamey | SECRET//NOFORN | ASEC CASC PGOV PREL UN NG |
| 08NIAMEY1167 |
Embassy Niamey Confronts Gender-Based Violence in Niger [...] SUMMARY: Between November 26 - December 10, 2008, Embassy Niamey took advantage of the U.N.-sponsored "16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence" (reftel) to raise awareness successfully on issues of domestic violence and women's rights in Niger. Niamey's Public Affairs Section (PAS) [...] |
2008-12-18 06:22:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO KISL KWMN NG |
| 08NIAMEY1170 |
MEDICAL FACILITIES IN NIGER IN CRITICAL CONDITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The newly-arrived FSHP has completed her tour of medical facilities in Niamey to assess availability of emergency care. Aging equipment and lack of repair facilities in country have resulted in extremely limited capabilities to support basic testing. Immediate medical evacuati [...] |
2008-12-19 10:30:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT AMED CASC EAID NG |
| 08NIAMEY1171 |
NIGER: REBEL FACTION RESIGNATIONS [...] (SBU) Recent resignations of seven leaders within the predominantly Tuareg rebel movement Front des Forces de Redressement (FFR) suggest a schism within the FFR element that broke off from the Mouvement des Nigeriens pour la Justice (MNJ) in May 2008 (reftel). The resignations follow two confl [...] |
2008-12-19 10:31:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PREL MOPS NG |
| 08NIAMEY1173 |
NIGER: DECEMBER 18 REPUBLIC OF NIGER (RON) JUBILEE [...] Summary. The RON celebrated its 50th anniversary with week-long (December 14-20) festivities in the regions of Tillabery and Niamey. There were cultural/sports events, a parade (including a display of security/military hardware), a banquet hosted by Government of Niger (GON) President Tandja a [...] |
2008-12-23 10:45:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MCAP SCUL SOCI NG |
| 08NIAMEY1176 |
NIGER: POL/ECON UPDATE FOR DECEMBER 1 - 21, 2008 [...] The following is an Embassy Niger compilation of political and economic highlights for the first three weeks of December 2008 not otherwise covered in mission reporting. This report covers the following issues: -- PNA Convenes; Jackou Declares Presidential Candidacy; -- SONITEL Employees D [...] |
2008-12-24 07:23:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI SCUL EAGR EAID NG |
| 08NIAMEY1178 |
DELIVERY OF DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES [...] On December 24, Embassy Niamey provided subject demarche, in both French and English, along with the Department of State and Department of Treasury press releases pertaining to the designation of additional Iranian entities under E.O. 13382, to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Direc [...] |
2008-12-24 11:39:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PARM KNNP UN US IR NG |
| 08NIAMEY1179 |
Niger: 4th Anniversary of Pres. Tandja's 2nd Term; [...] Summary: Immediately after the festivities marking the 50th Anniversary of the Republic of Niger, the fourth anniversary of President Tandja's second term was celebrated on December 21. Traditionally a commemorative event, this year's celebration was transformed into a political rally, wherein [...] |
2008-12-29 05:22:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINS SOCI NG |
| 08NIAMEY1181 |
GOVT OF NIGER FY09 BUDGET INCREASES 28 PERCENT [...] Summary: On Friday, November 14, 2008, the National Assembly approved the Government of Niger's proposed budget of USD 1.532 billion for 2009, representing an increase of 28.41 percent over the 2008 budget and including significant additional spending for capital projects. The 2009 budget in [...] |
2008-12-29 13:55:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV EFIN EINV ETRD EAID NG |
| 08NIAMEY1183 |
(SBU) NIGER: GOVERNMENT OF CANADA SENDS SPECIAL [...] (S) Summary. The Government of Canada (GOC) dispatched its Deputy Foreign Minister (DFM) for La Francophonie Jacques Bilodeau to the Republic of Niger (RON) for two days of consultations with Government of Niger (GON) officials on the disappearances of United Nations Special Envoy (SE) Robert Fowle [...] |
2008-12-30 13:58:00 | Embassy Niamey | SECRET | ASEC CASC PGOV PREL NG CA XY |
| 08NIAMEY148 |
GOVERNMENT OF TURKEY PLANS TO OPEN MISSION IN [...] Former Turkish Ambassador to Sudan and Chad, Dr. Ali Engin Oba, paid a courtesy call on me during his 48-hour stop in Niger. Oba informed me that the Goverment of Turkey (GOT) assigned him special envoy status to explore the possibilities of opening more embassies in Sub-Saharan Africa. He s [...] |
2008-02-05 17:12:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD EINV NG TU |
| 08NIAMEY178 |
NIGER: DCM MEETS WITH UN SECGEN SPECIAL ENVOY TO [...] No summary [...] |
2008-02-11 15:30:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL PREF EAID NG |
| 08NIAMEY196 |
Update on press freedom in Niger [...] Journalist Ibrahim Manzo Diallo was granted provisional release from prison on February 6. Diallo is the director of Agadez-based newspaper Air Info. He was arrested in October 2007 and held in pre-trial detention on charges of conspiring with the MNJ (ref a). Although released, Diallo still [...] |
2008-02-14 14:22:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY197 |
NIGER: WHAT'S IN A NUMBER? [...] Summary. Setting his sights on an improved position for Niger on the United Nations (UN) Human Development Index (HDI), Government of Niger (GON) President Mamadou Tandja chose a February 13 launching ceremony for the 2007-2008 HDI World Report as an occasion for experts to inform Nigeriens [...] |
2008-02-14 16:23:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI PREL PGOV EAID |
| 08NIAMEY198 |
NIGER: COUNTER-TERRORISM COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE [...] (U) A U.N. Counter-terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) team led by Mike Smith on February 13 briefed diplomats on their visit to Niger. The meeting was under the auspices of the Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) and was hosted by the French Embassy on behalf of G-8 president [...] |
2008-02-15 07:52:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL NG |
| 08NIAMEY226 |
NIGER: ALLEGATIONS OF TORTURE [...] (U) The Newspaper "Le Republicain" carried a front page article in its February 14-20 edition reporting the torture of a number of civilians by the security forces in Agadez. It recounts two specific cases. 2. (U) The first involves three cattle sellers who were detained on January 18. They [...] |
2008-02-22 12:59:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM NG |
| 08NIAMEY231 |
NIGER GSP PETITION: INTERIM DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) DCM on February 20 made ref A demarche with Labor Ministry Secretary General Assane Harouna, National Commission against Forced Labor and Discrimination director Issa Dan Azoumi and the head of the Labor Ministry's child labor division, Dounama Abdou. They noted that the slavery study [...] |
2008-02-25 08:51:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM ETRD SOCI USAID PREL NG |
| 08NIAMEY24 |
FORMER PRIME MINISTER DETAINED AND QUESTIONED [...] (U) Former Prime Minister Hama Amadou was questioned by police for about five hours on January 7. Details are still sketchy, but the questioning apparently followed a scuffle earlier in the day involving youth elements of the ruling MNSD party. One of the youth had questioned Amadou, who hea [...] |
2008-01-08 11:34:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON NG |
| 08NIAMEY267 |
PRICE OF NIGERIEN URANIUM [...] (U) the Government of Niger and the French energy company Areva signed an agreement on January 13 which among other things sets the price of the uranium (ref A). At the time, the GON announced that the new price represented a 50 percent increase, but did not specify what the price actually was [...] |
2008-03-06 12:23:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EMIN ENRG FR NG |
| 08NIAMEY269 |
NIGER: WILL ELECTIONS BE POSTPONED? [...] (U) The National Council for Political Dialogue (known by its French acronym CNDP), which comprises all political parties, has been meeting in closed session since late February. It is expected to submit recommendations to the government. 2. (SBU) There is widespread speculation about whet [...] |
2008-03-06 12:24:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NG |
| 08NIAMEY276 |
NIGER LIKELY TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO [...] (C) Econoff delivered Ref A demarche on March 7 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs desk officer for the Americas, Asia, and Oceana, Issa Housseyni. Housseyni stated that he believed Niger would most likely recognize Kosovo's independence. He stated that he based this belief on a previous conversa [...] |
2008-03-10 13:20:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NG |
| 08NIAMEY277 |
NIGER: MOUVEMENT DES NIGERIENS POUR LA JUSTICE [...] On Sunday, March 9, 2008, the MNJ website reported on the release of "25 military prisoners, including the Prefet of Tanout." The website reports that the release of the hostages marks the first anniversary of the MNJ after more than a year of hostilities against the Government of Niger (GON [...] |
2008-03-10 15:05:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PINS PGOV MOPS NG LY |
| 08NIAMEY303 |
NIGER: DONORS DISCUSS ELECTIONS [...] (U) There is an action request in paragraph 11. 2. (SBU) Summary: The GON has proposed an ambitious timetable to create a new voters registration list in preparation for elections in 2009, although it is not clear that registration can take place in the north given the security situation th [...] |
2008-03-11 13:36:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID KDEM NG |
| 08NIAMEY310 |
NIGER: OPTIMISM ABOUT THE PROSPECT FOR PEACE [...] (C) Summary. On March 12, Ambassador Allen met with the Government of Niger (GON) High Commissioner for the Restoration of Peace, Mohamed Anacko, to discuss the Mouvement des Nigeriens pour la Justice (MNJ) release of 25 hostages (ref A) and whether it was an opening for the GON to negotiate [...] |
2008-03-12 15:49:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS MOPS ASEC PGOV NG |
| 08NIAMEY313 |
NIGER: SECURITY UPDATE [...] (SBU) The French Embassy informed us that a convoy of trucks traveling between Agadez and Arlit was attacked the morning of March 12. One person in the convoy was killed. The French Embassy also reported that a Canadian mining camp near Ingall was attacked March 7. 2. (SBU) The Canadian Em [...] |
2008-03-13 12:18:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV ASEC NG |
| 08NIAMEY316 |
NIGER: REGIONAL CONFERENCE AND VENEZUELAN BILATS [...] (C) Prime Minister diplomatic counselor Housseini Abdou-Saleye provided the latest on the planned regional conferences on the Sahara/Sahel region in a March 13 meeting with DCM. Current plans are for Niger to host a meeting on regional smuggling, including drugs, cigarettes, arms, people and [...] |
2008-03-13 15:10:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL VE NG |
| 08NIAMEY318 |
RFI broadcast suspended in Niger [...] On March 12, 2008 the Conseil Superior de la Communication (CSC), Niger's media regulatory body, announced a decision suspending Radio France International's (RFI) FM broadcast in Niger for 3 months. 2. The decision was reportedly based on the airing of a March 10 talk show in support of Mou [...] |
2008-03-14 06:41:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY320 |
NIGER: MNJ ATTACK IN THE SOUTH; POSSIBLE RANSOM [...] (SBU) The MNJ claims on its website that it attacked the military outpost of Banibangou the night of March 16/17. It claims to have taken two gendarmes prisoner, and captured two vehicles and all of the weapons at the outpost. Police and French Embassy sources confirm the attack, although the [...] |
2008-03-17 11:08:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV NG |
| 08NIAMEY334 |
NIGER: SUCCESSFUL LAUNCH OF MCA THRESHOLD PROGRAM [...] Summary. The March 17, 2008, signing ceremony to launch a US$ 23 million Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Threshold Program for Niger was a huge success. USAID/WA Director Henderson Patrick and GON Finance Minister Lamine Zeine signed the agreement; MCC Deputy CEO Rodney Bent and Ambassador [...] |
2008-03-20 13:37:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EAID ETRD NG |
| 08NIAMEY407 |
TUAREG PARLIAMENTARIAN ON THE SITUATION IN THE [...] (C) Summary: A Tuareg National Assemblyman sees negotiations as the only way to end the conflict in the north. The GON cannot defeat the MNJ militarily, and its gross human rights violations are only making matters worse, he stressed. End Summary. 2. (C) Tuareg National Assemblyman Bridji [...] |
2008-04-08 15:03:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV MOPS PINR NG |
| 08NIAMEY408 |
NIGER: FIGHTING IN THE NORTH AND EAST [...] (U) The GON's long awaited offensive against the MNJ has apparently begun. There have been reports of fighting in several locations in the north. As is usually the case, the GON and MNJ provide contradictory reports of events, particularly regarding casualties. Much has been made of the MNJ [...] |
2008-04-08 15:26:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MOPS NG |
| 08NIAMEY414 |
CONFLICT, POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND FOOD: A PERFECT [...] (C) Summary: The ongoing conflict in the north, tensions surrounding the 2009 elections, adverse economic developments and rising food prices all combine to threaten Niger's stability. End summary. 2. (C) Conflict: The rebellion that broke out in February 2007 is the dominant issue in Nige [...] |
2008-04-10 10:52:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EAGR EAID NG |
| 08NIAMEY433 |
NIGER: HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR RECONCILIATION ON THE [...] (C) Summary: The GON official responsible for implementing the 1995 peace accord is disappointed that there had not been any GON follow-up to the MNJ's release of hostages. He thought the President's April 24 speech marking the end of the 1990s rebellion and the Communication Minister's state [...] |
2008-04-17 11:40:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF NG |
| 08NIAMEY446 |
RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/AGRICULTURAL [...] (U) As one of the poorest countries in the world, Niger will be among the hardest hit by rising food prices. Post has reported on food developments (refs b, c, and especially d), and will continue to do as the situation evolves. Much will depend on the fall harvest, which will in turn depend [...] |
2008-04-23 09:41:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL NG |
| 08NIAMEY447 |
RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/AGRICULTURAL [...] (U) As one of the poorest countries in the world, Niger will be among the hardest hit by rising food prices. Post has reported on food developments (refs b, c, and especially d), and will continue to do as the situation evolves. Much will depend on the fall harvest, which will in turn depend [...] |
2008-04-23 09:41:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL NG |
| 08NIAMEY45 |
AREVA SIGNS URANIUM CONTRACT WITH NIGER [...] (U) The government of Niger and the French energy company Areva have concluded a contract concerning Areva's mining and purchase of Nigerien uranium, according to press reports and an Areva press release. The contract reportedly calls for the development of the Imouraren uranium mine at a tota [...] |
2008-01-14 14:24:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | EMIN ENRG EINV PREL FR NG |
| 08NIAMEY452 |
CHINA'S ENGAGEMENT IN NIGER [...] (SBU) Summary. On April 14, the Chinese Ambassador to Niger gave an interview to the Nigerien weekly newspaper "La Griffe" (The Claw). In the article he summarized China's aid projects in Niger. He stated that Chinese aid to Niger was given "without selfishness and without conditions." The Ch [...] |
2008-04-29 13:33:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECPS EMIN EPET EAID EFIN MARR SENV TRGY |
| 08NIAMEY453 |
GON closes second radio station [...] (U) Summary: On April 22, 2008, the Conseil Superieur de la Communication (CSC), Niger's media regulatory body, ordered the indefinite closure of Agadez-based radio station Sahara FM. In its official report, the CSC indicates that this decision was made "without ruling out possible criminal cha [...] |
2008-04-29 15:03:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY460 |
NIGERIEN BAR ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT ON HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) In an April 30 meeting with the DCM, Nigerien Bar Association president Moussa Coulibaly reviewed the status of the case against two journalists (ref A) and the December 9 incident in the north (ref B). Coulibaly is the lawyer defending the journalists, and he represents the families of t [...] |
2008-04-30 13:52:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM NG |
| 08NIAMEY470 |
ADDENDUM: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/AGRICULTURAL [...] (U) Following up on reftel report on the impact of rising food prices on Niger, and after consultation with local WFP and FEWSNET personnel, Embassy estimates that Niger will need approximately 120,000 mt of food to tide the country over until next fall's harvest. The 120,000 mt should be a c [...] |
2008-05-05 13:49:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID PGOV NG |
| 08NIAMEY473 |
NIGER: MNJ REACTS TO TANDJA SPEECH [...] In his April 23 address marking the anniversary of the 1995 agreement ending the rebellion of the early 1990s, President Tandja said, inter alia: -- the GON is open to discussion with different parts of Nigerien society; -- it continues to greet with open arms and to listen to those who a [...] |
2008-05-05 14:10:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM NG |
| 08NIAMEY48 |
NIGER: U.S. AMBASSADOR JANUARY 10 MEETING WITH GON [...] (C) Summary. I met with Government of Niger (GON) Foreign Minister (FM) Mindaoudou on Thursday, January 10, 2008, and discussed the status of Niger,s MCC Threshold Program, security (specifically land mine incidents), human rights-related matters(arrested journalists and military,s killing of [...] |
2008-01-14 16:09:00 | Embassy Niamey | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR PHUM ASEC PGOV NG |
| 08NIAMEY481 |
GOVERNMENT OF NIGER (GON) PRESIDENT TANDJA HOSTS THE NIGER [...] Summary. On April 30, 2008, GON President Mamadou Tandja hosted the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) Eighth Heads of State and Government (HOSG) Summit (much of it held behind closed doors) in Niamey. Three presidents (Benin, Chad and Mali), a prime minister (Burkina Faso), senior government offici [...] |
2008-05-07 14:19:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PREL EAID EINV SENV EAGR TPHY NG XY |
| 08NIAMEY487 |
NIGER: RELEASED DETAINEE TELLS HIS STORY [...] (SBU) Aziz Ameyagi was released from Niger's high security Kutokalle Prison on May 5 after eight months of detainment On May 8 he recounted his saga to the Embassy Development Coordinator. 2. (SBU) Aziz was a senior person in Africare,s Agadez office. He was arrested by gendarmes last Augu [...] |
2008-05-09 06:55:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM NG |
| 08NIAMEY499 |
NIGER: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH RESEARCHER DETAINED [...] (SBU) Corinne Dufka, Human Rights Watch Senior Researcher for West Africa, called DCM at 8:20 the morning of May 14 to report that gendarmes were outside her hotel room. Dufka had been in Niger since May 5 looking into human rights issues. She had met with the Ambassador, DCM and the USAID d [...] |
2008-05-14 13:17:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM CASC NG |
| 08NIAMEY505 |
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH RESEARCHER RELEASED [...] (U) Corinne Dufka, Human Rights Watch Senior Researcher for West Africa, was released from detention around 4:30 the afternoon of May 14. She briefed Embassy personnel on both her detention and her ten day visit to Niger during the short time between her release and her departure from Niger l [...] |
2008-05-15 14:27:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL CASC NG |
| 08NIAMEY533 |
NIGER: MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS RESPONSE TO [...] (U) Following is an unofficial English translation of the Government of Niger (GON) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Diplomatic Note Number 3413 (dated 19 May 2008), in response to U.S. Embassy Niamey Diplomatic Note Number 36, related to allegations of human rights abuses conducted by Nigerien mil [...] |
2008-05-20 13:52:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM MARR PGOV NG |
| 08NIAMEY534 |
THIRD SPAIN AND AFRICA WOMEN'S CONFERENCE - EMPOWERMENT OF [...] Summary. The Government of Niger (GON) played host to the 3RD annual Spain and African Women's Conference, held May 12-13, 2008, in Niamey. GON President Mamadou Tandja (the only male speaker), Government of Spain (GOS) Vice President (VP) Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega and GON Foreign Min [...] |
2008-05-20 15:13:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KWMN ECON EAID SCUL PHUM XA NG SP |
| 08NIAMEY545 |
NIGER: CIVIL SOCIETY PROTESTS AGAINST NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] On May 21, the Movement of Citizens for Peace and the Republic (a group of civil society associations) organized a peaceful march and rally to protest the recent bill increasing National Assembly members' benefits (reftel). Thousands of demonstrators marched to the National Assembly square, whe [...] |
2008-05-21 15:04:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI NG |
| 08NIAMEY546 |
NIGER: Request for Intervention to Gain the Liberation of [...] Government of Niger National Commission of Human Rights and Fundamental Liberties (CNDHLF) President, Lompo Garba, sent a letter (dated May 21, 2008) to U.S. Embassy Niamey requesting the Ambassador's intervention to gain the liberation of the CNDHLF Commissioner and other persons in the custod [...] |
2008-05-22 14:23:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PINS PGOV SOCI NG |
| 08NIAMEY559 |
NIGER: REBELS RELEASE VICE PRESIDENT OF NATIONAL [...] On Saturday, May 24, 2008, Mouvement des Nigerien Pour la Justice (MNJ) rebels released CNDHLF Vice President Ahamadou Ahalawey and his newphew, taken hostage as reported in reftel, to the custody of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC). The ICRC delivered Ahalawey and his neph [...] |
2008-05-27 14:49:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PINS PGOV SOCI NG |
| 08NIAMEY567 |
HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICIAL DISCUSSES RECENT EVENTS [...] (U) In a May 28 meeting with DCM, Political assistant and visiting analysts, the Vice President of the Nigerien Association for the Defense of Human rights (known by its French acronym ANDDH), Badie Hima, expressed concern about recent developments. 2. (SBU) Hima is particularly worried abo [...] |
2008-05-29 08:44:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV NG |
| 08NIAMEY572 |
NIGER: RESIGNATIONS FROM THE MNJ POLITICAL CELL; [...] (U) A May 28 posting on the MNJ web site signed by Chehna ag Hamate announced Hamate's resignation from the MNJ political cell. On May 30 another posting said that the political cell had met the day before and accepted the resignation of Chehna Hamate and Kaocen Seydou Maiga. The new politic [...] |
2008-05-30 10:11:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MOPS PINR NG |
| 08NIAMEY603 |
NIGER: FORMER PRIME MINISTER FACES CORRUPTION [...] (U) The Nigerien Justice Ministry has reportedly asked the National Assembly to open an investigation into allegations that former Prime Minister Hama Amadou diverted government funds that were to support the press when Amadou was Prime Minister. The National Assembly is expected to review the [...] |
2008-06-12 14:00:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV NG |
| 08NIAMEY605 |
(C) NIGER: TESTY FOREIGN MINISTER (FM) MEETS WITH [...] (U) Summary. Responding to a diplomatic corps request of several weeks ago for an update on the security situation in the north, the status of 2009 election preparations and a review of food security issues, Government of Niger (GON) FM Aichatou Mindaoudou convoked the resident ambassadors and [...] |
2008-06-13 09:49:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAGR EAID NG |
| 08NIAMEY607 |
NIGER: FORMER PRIME MINISTER REACTS TO CORRUPTION CHARGES [...] Summary: Former Prime Minister Hama Amadou held a press conference on Saturday, June 14, regarding the GON's request for a National Assembly resolution to indict him on charges of misusing the national press support fund. He dismissed allegations regarding corruption at the education ministry [...] |
2008-06-16 13:02:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KCOR NG |
| 08NIAMEY608 |
NIGER: AF DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY MOSS VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary. ------------------------- On June 1, 2008, Department of State Bureau for African Affairs (AF) Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Todd Moss met with several Government of Niger (GON) officials (including President Mamadou Tandja) and a human rights organization, participated in [...] |
2008-06-16 15:01:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MARR EAGR EAID NG |
| 08NIAMEY616 |
MNJ KIDNAPS FRENCH URANIUM WORKERS [...] (U) The MNJ has claimed on its website to have kidnapped four French employees of the uranium mining company COMINAK (a subsidiary of AREVA) in the northern town of Airlit the night of June 21/22. It has not made any demands, and says that it will release the four as soon as arrangements can b [...] |
2008-06-23 07:46:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC NG |
| 08NIAMEY619 |
UNITED NATIONS HUMANITARIAN AIR SERVICE (UNHAS) [...] Summary. The UNHAS launched an inaugural flight in Niger on June 12, 2008, with a short trip from Niamey to Agadez to Niamey. The UNHAS will facilitate travel to remote locations in country as well as offer limited service from Niger to other countries in west and central Africa. This most w [...] |
2008-06-23 14:13:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID CASC AEMR AMED PREL ASEC NG CD CM CT |
| 08NIAMEY623 |
RFI correspondent in Niger released [...] Journalist Moussa Kaka was granted provisional release from prison on June 23, 2008. Kaka is the director of the private radio Saraounia and RFI correspondent in Niger. He was arrested on September 20, 2007 and later charged under Niger's national security statute for alleged collaboration wi [...] |
2008-06-23 14:43:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY624 |
NIGER: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES PROSECUTION OF [...] (U) Late in the evening of Monday, June 23, the National Assembly approved the prosecution of former Prime Minister Hama Amadou on charges related to the misuse of funds appropriated for support of the media (reftels). The secret ballot vote was 72 for and 28 against, with one abstention. [...] |
2008-06-24 06:35:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR ASEC NG |
| 08NIAMEY625 |
NIGER: UPDATE ON FRENCH HOSTAGES [...] (U) The MNJ has claimed on its website that the GON delayed for 48 hours giving authorization to the ICRC travel to the north to pick up the four French uranium workers kidnapped on June 22 (reftel). It also claims that early in the morning of June 24 the Nigerien Armed Forces used recently a [...] |
2008-06-24 12:14:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC MOPS FR NG |
| 08NIAMEY629 |
NIGER: UPDATE ON FRENCH HOSTAGES [...] (U) The MNJ reports on its website that it has turned the four French uranium workers (refs A and B) over to the ICRC, along with a message addressed to the French government and AREVA. It says that Nigerien Armed Forces (FAN) MI-24 helicopters bombed the villages of Tadek (just north of Ifer [...] |
2008-06-26 07:29:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC MOPS FR NG |
| 08NIAMEY631 |
NIGER: INCINERATION OF SEIZED NARCOTICS AT [...] On June 26, 2008, to commemorate the 21st International Day in the Fight against Narcotics Abuse and Trafficking, Government of Niger (GON) Minister of Justice Dagra Mamadou presided over a ceremony to incinerate narcotics seized in Niger over the period November 2006 - October 2007. Several [...] |
2008-06-26 12:39:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV SOCI NG |
| 08NIAMEY632 |
NIGER: FORMER PRIME MINISTER JAILED [...] Former Prime Minister Hama Amadou was detained the afternoon of June 26 on charges that he misused funds meant to support the private press (reftels). 2. Several hundred Amadou supporters gathered outside the courthouse where he was being held that afternoon. They tried to block the police [...] |
2008-06-27 08:56:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KCOR ASEC CASC NG |
| 08NIAMEY633 |
NIGER: FRENCH HOSTAGES FREED [...] The four French uranium workers kidnapped the morning of June 22 (reftel) have been freed and repatriated to France. The MNJ turned the three French men and one woman over to the ICRC which transported them to Agadez by road on June 27. They were flown to France that night. 2. The ICRC als [...] |
2008-06-27 08:56:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC MOPS FR NG |
| 08NIAMEY638 |
NIGER: POLITICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE CASE AGAINST [...] (C) The arrest of former Prime Minister Hama Amadou on corruption charges (refs A-C) raises questions about Amadou's guilt and the motivations behind his prosecution. We are not in a position to answer those questions definitively, but we offer the following observations. 2. (C) Amadou (he [...] |
2008-06-30 13:41:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KCOR NG |
| 08NIAMEY639 |
Private Television Station Warned [...] On June 26 the private radio and television station Dounia broadcast footage of a demonstration which occurred at Niger's High Court of Justice as police forces took former Prime Minister Hama Amadou from the courthouse to prison (Reftel). The video showed police using teargas and batons to dis [...] |
2008-06-30 13:42:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY641 |
GON CLOSES PROFESSIONAL MEDIA CENTER [...] On June 30 the Ministry of Communication closed Niger's "Maison de la Presse," a professional media center located in Niamey. 2. In 2005, Nigerien President Mamadou Tandja instructed the Ministry of Communication to donate to Nigerien journalists a media center that had been constructed for [...] |
2008-07-02 13:25:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY689 |
NIGER: UNITED NATIONS (UN) SECRETARY GENERAL [...] Summary. UN Secretary General SA on Conflict Prevention, Jan Egeland, made a June 5-6 visit to Niger to investigate the nexus between climate change issues and conflict. UN Development Program (UNDP) Senior Representative Khardiata Lo N'Diaye (concurrently the senior UN system official in Nige [...] |
2008-07-10 09:39:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS SOCI EAID PREF NG UN |
| 08NIAMEY693 |
NIGER: MNJ ATTACKS AGADEZ [...] (U) The MNJ reports on its web site that it attacked Agadez around 6:30 in the evening of July 10. It claims that the attack is the prelude for an offensive, and warns civilians to stay away from military and government facilities in the interior of the country. It also reiterates its claim [...] |
2008-07-14 07:30:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PGOV ASEC NG |
| 08NIAMEY706 |
NIGER: TRACT THREATENS OPPONENTS OF THE FORMER [...] (U) The French Embassy on July 18 received a tract expressing support for imprisoned former Prime Minister Hama Amadou, and threatening those responsible for his imprisonment (ref a, b, and c). It says that it will locate the homes of 10 members of the National Assembly ad hoc commission that [...] |
2008-07-18 09:50:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC NG |
| 08NIAMEY725 |
GOVERNMENT OF NIGER FOOD REQUEST [...] The Government of Niger requests 60,000 tons of rice and 15,000 tons of wheat. 2. Following is post's unofficial translation of a dipnote from the Nigerien Foreign Ministry dated July 21: Complimentary opening... and requests the Embassy to transmit to the appropriate authorities of the U [...] |
2008-07-24 10:57:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR PREL NG |
| 08NIAMEY727 |
NIGER: VOTER REGISTRATION DRIVE [...] Summary. Niger's voter registration drive took place June 19 - July 10, 2008. The National Committee to Pilot the Revision of the Voter Register (known by its French acronym CNPRFE) was created in 2007 to prepare a new voter register. After a long delay related to the committee's organization a [...] |
2008-07-24 14:32:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM NG |
| 08NIAMEY737 |
GON appeals dismissal of Kaka case [...] On July 23, 2008 the investigating judge dismissed the criminal case against jailed Nigerien journalist Moussa Kaka and ordered him freed from prison. Nigerien law grants prosecutors 48 hours to appeal such rulings, so Kaka was not immediately released. 2. On July 25, the state prosecutor a [...] |
2008-07-28 14:41:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY739 |
NIGER: GOVERNMENT SUSPENDS MSF-FRANCE OPERATIONS [...] (U) The Nigerien Interior Ministry in a decree dated July 18 suspended the operations of Medecins Sans Frontieres-France (MSF-F) in Niger. 2. (SBU) In a July 29 meeting with the DCM, the head of the French chapter of MSF in Niger, Emmanuel Lavieuville, explained that, contrary to press rep [...] |
2008-07-29 10:45:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM SOCI FR NG |
| 08NIAMEY800 |
NIGER: MNJ Rebel Leader Reported to Have Announced [...] Summary. On August 18, a late evening announcement on Tele-Sahel public television reported Mouvement Nigerien pour la Justice (MNJ) leader Agali Alambo had decided to have MNJ rebels lay down their arms. Alambo reportedly arrived at the decision at a meeting in Libya with "Great Sahara" comm [...] |
2008-08-19 14:29:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS SOCI PGOV CASC ASEC NG LY |
| 08NIAMEY809 |
NIGER: RADIO AND TV DOUNIA SUSPENDED FOR ONE [...] High Council for Communication (CSC) Director Daouda Diallo notified Radio and TV Dounia that its operation has been suspended for one month. The official reason given for RTV Dounia's suspension was "failure to meet the specifications for which it is authorized." CSC is the Government of Ni [...] |
2008-08-20 05:29:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KPAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY81 |
MNJ ATTACKS TANOUT; REGIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE [...] (U) The MNJ claims to have attacked the town of Tanout, which is located about 100 kms north of Zinder, some 1000 kms from Niamey. (We understand that the attack was on the government facilities located on the outskirts of town.) The MNJ says that it captured 11 people, including the prefet a [...] |
2008-01-22 13:51:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PGOV ASEC NG |
| 08NIAMEY815 |
NIGER: MNJ LEADERSHIP CONTRADICTS GON [...] (C) Summary. Following August 18 media reports that Mouvement des Nigeriens pour la Justice (MNJ) leader Aghali Alambo had agreed to Libyan leader Mouamar Khaddafi's call for rebels to lay down their arms to faciliate planning for peace talks, the MNJ leadership alleged that Government of Ni [...] |
2008-08-21 14:28:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MOPS PREL CASC NG LY ML |
| 08NIAMEY821 |
NIGER: ACCIDENTAL LANDMINE EXPLOSION AT "LAYING [...] (U) Summary. On the morning of Sunday, August 24, Government of Niger (GON) authorities and Revolutionary Armed Forces of the Sahara (FARS) rebels (of Toubou ethnicity) held a ceremony in which FARS rebels turned over hundreds of weapons (landmines, guns, grenades, etc.). Regrettably, the l [...] |
2008-08-25 13:36:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CASC PGOV MOPS PREL NG |
| 08NIAMEY828 |
NIGER: HOST COUNTRY MILITARY DECLINES ACOTA [...] (U) Following is an unofficial translation of the text of diplomatic note number 5795 that Embassy Niamey received today from the Government of Niger Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office of Defense Cooperation, dated 25 August 2008: Quote. The Office of Military Cooperation in the Government [...] |
2008-08-26 14:34:00 | Embassy Niamey | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR PREL MOPS NG |
| 08NIAMEY91 |
FORMER PRIME MINISTER QUESTIONED AGAIN [...] (U) Former Prime Minister Hama Amadou was again questioned by police on January 18 regarding allegations that he incited violence (ref A). He has been charged with conspiracy to commit arson, but he has not been arrested. 2. (C) There are credible rumors circulating in Niamey that current [...] |
2008-01-23 08:58:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NG |
| 08NIAMEY93 |
GON releases jailed French Journalists [...] On January 18, the GON released two French journalists from pre-trial detention on bail of 10 million FCFA each (exchange rate currently 448 FCFA = 1$US). Their bond was paid that same day and the two flew to Paris later that evening. 2. Journalists Thomas Dandois and Pierre Creisson of Eur [...] |
2008-01-23 15:05:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY945 |
HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE FOR UNGFA - NIGER [...] The Nigerien attendees to the 63rd UN General Assembly will be as listed below. (Note: no spouses are anticipated to attend, and travel information is not available at this time. All participants speak French. End Note.): A. Attendance of Head of State: No. B. Attendance of Hea [...] |
2008-09-05 14:20:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OVIP OTRA KSEP UNGA NG |
| 08NIAMEY951 |
NIGER: APPLYING LETTER OF THE LAW TO [...] (C) Summary. USAID Country Manager attended a donors' meeting to discuss the current working environment for NGOs. The tense relationships between the Government of Niger (GON) and two NGOs, Medecins Sans Frontier/France (MSF/F) and Agence Contre le Faim/Espagne (ACF/E), after the NGO operati [...] |
2008-09-11 08:55:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ELAB PREL PGOV EAGR NG |
| 08NIAMEY958 |
Nigerien Gov't Delegation Departs for China [...] On September 15, Prime Minister Seini Oumarou led a delegation bound for Beijing. The delegation included: -- Minister of Agricultural Development Mahamane Moussa; -- Minister of Mines and Energy Mohamed Abdoulahi; -- Minister of National Education Ousmane Samba Mamadou; -- Minister [...] |
2008-09-15 14:23:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAGR EPET EMIN EAID CH NG |
| 08NIAMEY960 |
Transport Minister Replaced; ANDP Technocrat Brought Back [...] (SBU) On September 14, President Tandja, acting on the recommendation of PM Oumarou, dismissed Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation Kindo Hamani. Reasons cited on the street for his dismissal include difficulties encountered by importers and transport firms in moving goods from the Port of [...] |
2008-09-15 14:24:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELTN EAIR PINR NG |
| 08NIAMEY964 |
Court of Appeals Hears Arguments on Case of Moussa Kaka; [...] On September 16, the State Prosecutor asked the Court of Appeals to permit a reclassification of the charges against jailed Nigerien Radio France International (RFI) affiliate director Moussa Kaka from "conspiracy against national security," which is subject to life imprisonment, to committing [...] |
2008-09-16 14:33:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 08NIAMEY97 |
NIGER: ENGAGEMENT WITH FRANCE IN TSCTP COUNTRIES [...] (U) Following is in response to ref b e-mail request for information regarding engagement with France in TSCTP counties. 2. (C) French security interests in Niger are far greater than our own: -- There are more French than American citizens in Niger. Any security incident is therefore m [...] |
2008-01-24 09:23:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PGOV NG FR |
| 08NIAMEY974 |
KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION AT UNGA [...] Charge d'Affaires, a.i., Whitaker briefed Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Director for the Americas, Asia, and Oceania Sani Nana Aicha Andia and Desk Officer for the Americas Aboubacar Danbarma on the subject of reftel on September 19. 2. Aicha Andia stated that the matter woul [...] |
2008-09-20 14:42:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA UN KV NG |
| 08NIAMEY975 |
Community of Democracies at UNGA [...] Charge d'Affaires, a.i., Whitaker and Political Specialist Idi Moussa delivered subject demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation Director for the Americas, Asia, and Oceania Sani Nana Aicha Andia and Desk Officer for the Americas Aboubacar Danbarma on September 19. 2. Aicha [...] |
2008-09-20 14:42:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM PGOV PHUM UNGA NG |
| 08NIAMEY988 |
NIAMEY VISAS VIPER REPORT FOR AUGUST 2008 [...] (SBU) Post Visas Viper Committee met on September 15, 2008. Visas Viper Coordinator is Conoff Karan Swaner. Visas Viper Committee Chair CDA Eric Whitaker requested information from the committee. 2. (SBU) Members of the Visas Viper Committee mentioned that sometime in the spring of 2008, A [...] |
2008-09-23 14:18:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEG PREL NG |
| 08NIAMEY993 |
NIAMEY - ATA 6851 INTERDICTING TERRORIST [...] (SBU) Per ref A, Embassy Niamey submits the final participant list for participation in Department of State training program ATA 6851, scheduled to be conducted in Niamey, Niger, from September 29 through Otober 10, 2008: 1 (Name) Mahaman Sani Idi (Position) Police Commissioner (DOB) [...] |
2008-09-24 14:36:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER |
| 09NIAMEY100 |
NIGER HOSTS INAUGURAL CEN-SAD GAMES (FEBRUARY 4-14, 2009) [...] Summary. Approximately 3000 young athletes and/or artists from 19 African states basked in the eleven days of sports and cultural diversity competition that unfolded at the inaugural Community of Sahel and Saharan States (CEN-SAD) Games in Niamey. Nigerien President Mamadou Tandja and Prime M [...] |
2009-02-19 14:44:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | SCUL PREL SOCI XA NG |
| 09NIAMEY1004 |
Niger: Upcoming Local Elections, Republic Day Celebration [...] (U) Summary: On December 15, President Tandja launched the campaign for local elections. On December 17, he addressed the nation on the occasion of the 51st anniversary of the Proclamation of the Republic of Niger. On December 20, political parties favorable to the president's continuation in [...] |
2009-12-21 20:27:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SOCI PHUM NG |
| 09NIAMEY1005 |
Niger: ECOWAS MEDIATOR AND GON PRIME MINISTER OPEN THE [...] Summary: On December 21, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Mediator, Abdulsalami Abubakar, and Government of Niger (GON) Prime Minister (PM) Ali Badjo Gamatie, co-presided over the opening ceremony of the Inter-Nigerien Political Dialogue (INPD). The aim of the INPD is to arr [...] |
2009-12-22 08:10:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI PHUM NG XY |
| 09NIAMEY1008 |
Niger: Labor Unions Strike; Inter-Nigerien Political [...] Summary: The Inter-Union of Nigerien Workers (ITN) observed a strike on December 22 to demand salary and benefit increases and to press the Government of Niger (GON) to implement previous agreements signed. During a press conference, President Tandja criticized the Economic Community of West [...] |
2009-12-22 19:44:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV KDEM SOCI PHUM NG |
| 09NIAMEY1009 |
Niger: Government Delegation Walks out of Political Talks [...] On December 22, the Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS) issued a statement at its headquarters in Abuja regarding the end of President Tandja's term in office under the 1999 Constitution, subsequently superseded by the disputed August 4 referendum's new constitution. In the sta [...] |
2009-12-23 18:26:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI PHUM NG |
| 09NIAMEY1011 |
Niger: Government Returns to Negotiation Table [...] On December 23, during the state television evening news broadcast, the Minister of Communication and Government Spokesperson read a Government of Niger (GON) statement about recent developments in the Inter-Nigerien Political Dialogue (INPD). Following are highlights of the statement: (Beg [...] |
2009-12-24 11:06:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI PHUM NG |
| 09NIAMEY1013 |
NIGER: POSITION PAPERS REQUESTED; WARRANTS [...] (U) Summary. The ECOWAS Mediator for the Niger political crisis requested a meeting with Ambassador Allen on the evening of December 24 to provide an update on the negotiations between the Government of Niger (GON) and Opposition. The Mediator requested both negotiation teams to prepare a po [...] |
2009-12-28 07:50:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM SOCI NG |
| 09NIAMEY1017 |
Niger: Municipal Elections Pass Quietly; Ruling Party [...] Summary: Municipal elections of December 27 occurred without violence; preliminary Government of Niger (GON) tallies indicate a strong showing by ruling party-affiliated candidates and a GON-alleged overall voter turnout of 56 percent. Although that figure appears high based on mission person [...] |
2009-12-29 17:02:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM SOCI PHUM NG |
| 09NIAMEY1018 |
Niger: Saudis Ambushed, Killed Near Mali Border [...] (U) Summary: Unknown assailants ambushed a Saudi hunting party in western Niger near the Malian border on December 28 during early morning prayers, killing at least three and wounding three others. The Government of Niger (GON) has deplored the "barbaric act" and the Saudi Arabian Government h [...] |
2009-12-29 18:18:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PREL PGOV CASC SA NG |
| 09NIAMEY1021 |
Response: Information on Human Rights Trends Pertaining [...] Summary: Niger is a conservative country both culturally and religiously, and homosexuality is not discussed publicly. There are no provisions in the 1993 Penal Code that make homosexuality illegal, and there are no advocacy groups regarding homosexuality. While there is tolerance of homosexu [...] |
2009-12-30 16:20:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV SOCI SCUL NG |
| 09NIAMEY1023 |
NIGER: DEMOCRACY ACTIVIST, IVLP PARTICIPANT THANKS [...] (C/NF) Summary: PAO met with Marou Amadou, a leading Nigerien pro-democracy advocate, for a December 28 out-briefing to prepare for his upcoming participation in an International Visitor Program (IVLP). During the meeting, Amadou shared his view that the current Nigerien administration would [...] |
2009-12-31 09:32:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV KDEM PHUM SOCI PREL NG |
| 09NIAMEY1025 |
NIGER: OPPOSITION LEADERS BRIEF AMBASSADOR ON [...] (C) Summary: On December 30, Opposition leaders briefed Ambassador Allen of their proposal for a way out from Niger's political standoff. The proposal calls for a return to the 1999 Constitution; the formation of a transitional political body; the consensual drafting of a new constitution, e [...] |
2009-12-31 14:13:00 | Embassy Niamey | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL SOCIA PHUM US NG |
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PM CHOSEN AS MNSD PRESIDENT AT PARTY CONVENTION; PRO-HAMA [...] Summary: MNSD members selected PM Oumarou as party president during a February 21 extraordinary congress in Zinder, elevating him from his role as interim president. Party members also chose Minister of Interior Abouba as party Secretary General. Numerous MNSD members who supported former PM [...] |
2009-02-23 21:12:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM SOCI KCOR PHUM NG |
| 09NIAMEY108 |
PRESIDENT TANDJA EXTENDS STATE OF ALERT FOR AGADEZ REGION [...] On February 24, President Mamadou Tandja signed an executive order extending the "State of Alert" on Agadez region for an additional 90 day period from its effective date, also February 24. This travel limitation and security measure has been in place since August 2007. 2. This decision wil [...] |
2009-02-26 08:20:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC PTER SOCI PHUM NG |
| 09NIAMEY109 |
GON OPENS PEACE AND SECURITY FORUM ON NORTH [...] On February 25, the Government of Niger (GON) opened the two-day "Forum on Peace and Security" at the Hotel Tenere in Niamey under the auspices of the Ministry of Interior and the High Commissioner for the Restoration of Peace. DCM and Pol Specialist attended the opening session, which roughly [...] |
2009-02-26 08:20:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI PHUM SCUL PINR PTER ML NG |
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NIGER-BURKINA FASO CONCUR ON TERMS OF REFERRAL OF BORDER [...] On February 23-24, Government of Niger (GON) and Government of Burkina Faso foreign ministers, experts, local authorities, and community leaders met in Niamey to finalize the "Projet de Compromis Commun de Saisine de la Haute Cour de Justice" (Joint Consensus Project for Referral to the Intern [...] |
2009-02-27 14:11:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PBTS ECIN PGOV SOCI ICJ UV NG BN |
| 09NIAMEY111 |
CIVIL SOCIETY PROTESTS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY COMPENSATION [...] Arm-wrestling between the National Assembly and civil society continues. On February 19, three umbrella groups of civil society organizations - the Citizen's Convergence (CC), the United Front for the Protection of Democratic Gains (FUSAD), and the Citizens' Movement for Peace, Democracy, and [...] |
2009-02-27 14:11:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI NG |
| 09NIAMEY112 |
SULTAN OF AGADEZ CALLS ON AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Summary: During a February 12 luncheon, the Sultan of Agadez told Ambassador that the security situation in Niger's north had improved, with fewer abuses by the military, although sporadic attacks by rebels and smugglers continued. His efforts to get insurgents to cease their hostilitie [...] |
2009-03-02 07:09:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SCUL PHUM SOCI ASEC CASC PTER NG |
| 09NIAMEY118 |
NIGER DECLINES INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN DMI CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) On February 26, Embassy Niamey received Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation diplomatic note number 1322, dated February 25, from its Division of Military Cooperation: (Begin text) (complimentary opening) ...and, in reference to the Embassy Diplomatic Note No. 015 dated Feb [...] |
2009-03-04 13:20:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PREL MCAP PGOV US NG |
| 09NIAMEY121 |
NIGER: CONTRACT TEACHER PROTESTS AND STUDENT [...] On March 3, public high school and middle school students took to the streets to protest in support for contract teachers. The latter have been observing slowdown strikes for several weeks to pressure the Government of Niger (GON) to provide permanent employment to those who have completed at [...] |
2009-03-05 08:25:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB SOCI PHUM SCUL PINR ASEC NG |
| 09NIAMEY122 |
NIGER: PRO-HAMA AMADOU MNSD FACTION MEETS, VOWS TO [...] On March 1, following the February 21 Mouvement National pour la Societe de Developpement (National Movement for a Development Society - MNSD) convention in Zinder (Ref a), former prime minister and former MNSD president Hama Amadou's supporters organized a meeting in Niamey to reconsider their [...] |
2009-03-05 08:40:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM SOCI PHUM SCUL PINR NG |
| 09NIAMEY132 |
NIGER EXPROPRIATES TELEPHONE UTILITY SONITEL [...] SUMMARY: On February 12, the Government of Niger (GON) unilaterally announced a decision to reduce the term of the operating license of the country's privatized telecoms provider SONITEL, effectively ending the management of Dataport LTD, the foreign-owned consortium that had purchased 51% own [...] |
2009-03-16 07:08:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ECPS KPRV ELAB EINV KMCA NG |
| 09NIAMEY135 |
WEEKLY CAMEL MARKET DRIVES LIBYA-LAKE CHAD TRADE [...] In far eastern Niger, N'Guigmi's weekly camel market on Sundays and Mondays draws buyers from Libya, Chad, and Nigeria, and 500 - 1,000 head change hands each week. The sale and export of camels has emerged as the most important source of income for the community. At the same time, it has dra [...] |
2009-03-16 07:19:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KCRM KMPI PINR PTER SENV SMIG NG |
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ACCOMMODATION ADVISORY - NIAMEY, NIGER [...] Hotel rooms in and around Niamey, Niger will be in short supply from February 3 - 15, 2009 due to the CEN-SAD (Communaute Economique des Etats Sahelo-Saheliens) Games, which will be held from February 4 - 14, 2009. Post advises travelers to ensure that they have confirmed hotel reservations p [...] |
2009-01-13 12:52:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT AORC ATRN OREP OVIP CASC |
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FORMER PM HAMA AMADOU HOSPITALIZED FOR MALARIA; [...] On March 12, officials transferred jailed former Prime Minister Hama Amadou from the Koutoukle prison to Niamey National Hospital for medical care, reportedly following a malaria attack. There was no further information available regarding his illness and general condition. Amadou's transfer o [...] |
2009-03-17 06:22:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI PHUM NG |
| 09NIAMEY165 |
NIGER: AFRICAN UNION CHAIRMAN QADHAFI STOPOVER MORPHS INTO [...] (SBU) Summary. African Union (AU) Chairman Muammar al- Qadhafi's March 12 stopover in Niamey concluded three days later, March 15. Government of Niger (GON) President Mamadou Tandja praised Qadhafi for the delivery of six former hostages previously held by Mouvement des Nigeriens Pour la Justi [...] |
2009-03-17 12:02:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM PGOV SOCI AU LY NG |
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NIGER: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR FAN MEMBER TO ATTEND NDU [...] (SBU) The following individual has been identified to attend the NDU International Counterterrorism Fellows Program from 17 July 2009 through 10 June 2010 in Washington, DC. Name: ABDOURAHAMANE, Tiani Rank: Lieutenant Colonel DOB: 01 January 1964 POB: Toukounouss, Niger Title: Officier A [...] |
2009-03-18 13:37:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PHUM PTER NG |
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NIGER: UNDP, DONORS DISCUSS SUPPORT FOR NIGER'S 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: During a March 18 meeting for development partners, GON officials, and civil society representatives, discussion focused on the nearly complete voter registration process, the prospect that this and delays in forming the CENI would delay local elections anticipated for June 30, [...] |
2009-03-26 06:20:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SOCI PHUM PREL NG |
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NIGER: POL/ECON UPDATE FOR MARCH 2009 [...] The following is an Embassy Niger compilation of political and economic highlights for March 2009 not otherwise covered in mission reporting. This report covers the following issues: -- President Sarkozy to Visit Niger Briefly on March 27; -- Civil Society Demonstrations Occur on March 21 & [...] |
2009-03-27 06:17:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL KISL TBIO FR NG |
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NIGER: PRESIDENT TANDJA FORMS CENI; JUDGES DISPUTE [...] President Tandja signed a decree on March 25 appointing members of the Independent National Commission on Elections (CENI), consistent with Articles 10, 11, and 12 of the constitution. Moumouni Hamidou, current president of the National Committee to Pilot the Revision of the Voter Register (CNP [...] |
2009-03-30 06:58:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM SOCI NG |
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2009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT: NIGER [...] Openness to Foreign Investment The Government of Niger (GON) welcomes foreign private investment and considers it to be critical to economic growth. Under the Investment Code (revised in 2000) industrial investments enjoy tax and customs exemptions and even, in some cases, exemptions from th [...] |
2009-01-20 07:18:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ELAB ETRD KTDB OPIC USTR NG |
| 09NIAMEY223 |
NIGER: GON DETENTION OF SWISS NATIONALS REVEALED [...] (SBU) On April 1, Ursula Funk (protect), a Swiss national heading the Swiss Cooperation Office, advised CDA at an evening reception for newly accredited, Abuja-based Swiss Ambassador Baum, that Nigerien security forces had detained four Swiss nationals in February 2009 in Dirkou. Dirkou, loca [...] |
2009-04-03 08:53:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL PTER PINR PINS SZ ML NG |
| 09NIAMEY225 |
NIGER: LABOR CONFEDERATION, GON SIGN 20-POINT PROTOCOL [...] Negotiations that started in mid-2008 between the Government of Niger (GON) and seven labor confederations came to conclusion on March 20 with the signature of a protocol. Out of 20 items negotiated, only one did not reach resolution. 2. On May 1, 2007, on the occasion of International Labo [...] |
2009-04-03 13:46:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV PHUM SOCI SCUL NG |
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FORMER PM HAMA AMADOU RETURNED TO PRISON FROM [...] On April 2, Government of Niger security forces returned former Prime Minister Hama Amadou to prison from Niamey National Hospital at 4:00 a.m., where he had been since March 11 due to an attack of malaria (Ref A). Amadou's lawyers have lodged a complaint before the judiciary complaining that [...] |
2009-04-06 06:57:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI NG |
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NIGER: GON Prosecution of Journalists Continues [...] On April 1, police arrested Mr. Abibou Garba, owner of private media group TV/Radio Dounia, on charges of "broadcasting false information," and transported him to detention at the headquarters of the Criminal Investigations Department (PJ). 2. Garba's arrest resulted from a debate broadcast on [...] |
2009-04-06 15:35:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCOR KPAO NG |
| 09NIAMEY233 |
NIGER: THE DILEMMA OF CONTRACTUAL TEACHERS [...] Since the beginning of 2009, roughly 37,000 contract teachers representing almost 85 percent of primary and secondary educators have been on strike for improved compensation and the opportunity to convert to regular civil service positions. The long duration of their job action threatens to an [...] |
2009-04-06 16:14:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ELAB SOCI ECON PHUM NG |
| 09NIAMEY234 |
VISIT OF PRESIDENT SARKOZY; PRESIDENT TANDJA'S REMARKS [...] On March 27, French President Sarkozy paid a four-hour visit to Niger, where he met with President Tandja to strengthen the "strategic partnership." Sarkozy also met with the National Council for Political Dialogue (CNDP), the country's political elite, with whom he discussed governance issues [...] |
2009-04-06 16:14:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEN SOCI PHUM PINR NG |
| 09NIAMEY235 |
GON DELEGATION PARTICIPATES IN PEACE TALKS WITH TUAREGS IN [...] (SBU) Despite long-held refusals to negotiate with rebel Tuareg groups, including most notably the Mouvement Nigerien pour la Justice - MNJ, the Government of Niger (GON) recently sent a high-level delegation to engage in talks in Tripoli, with the first sessions of talks taking place on April [...] |
2009-04-06 16:14:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PREL PHUM PINR PINS PTER NG |
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MORE ON FORMER PM HAMA AMADOU'S RETURN TO PRISON AND [...] (U) On April 3, attorneys for former Prime Minister Hama Amadou held a press conference to request an explanation for Amadou's unexpected 4:00 a.m. return to prison on April 2 (Refs A and B). The attorneys stated that Amadou had fallen unconscious during his transfer, and that medical advisors [...] |
2009-04-08 16:09:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PHUM PINR NG |
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NIGER: GON WELCOMES U.S. SUPPORT FOR AU POSITION ON [...] No summary [...] |
2009-04-15 17:21:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAID MA NG |
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NIGER: UPDATE ON CASE OF SLAVERY VICTIM HADIZATOU MANI - [...] On March 24, the Tribunal of Birni-N'Konni sentenced Naroua, the defendant in the slavery case of Hadizatou Mani (reftel), to one year's imprisonment, a fine of one million F CFA (USD 2000) in damages payable to Mani, and a fine of 500,000 F CFA (USD 1000) in damages payable to the Government o [...] |
2009-04-16 07:20:00 | Embassy Niamey | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV SOCI KWMN SCUL NG |
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NIGER: UPDATE ON GSP PETITION-RELATED MATTERS [...] (SBU) Introduction and Background: Ref A tasked post with obtaining information pertaining to the continuing review of the 2006 Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) petition involving Niger; post responded in Refs B, C, D, and E. Ref F was a follow-on tasking that requested that post meet [...] |
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