{"id":401954,"date":"2020-11-25T11:46:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T08:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=401954"},"modified":"2020-11-25T11:46:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T08:46:05","slug":"nigers-former-president-mamadou-tandja-dies-at-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/nigers-former-president-mamadou-tandja-dies-at-82\/","title":{"rendered":"Niger\u2019s former President Mamadou Tandja dies at 82"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Niger (<strong>SONNA)<\/strong>-Former Nigerien president Mamadou Tandja has died aged 82, the government said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tandja, won election twice after the country&#8217;s return to civilian rule in 1999. He was overthrown ten years later following an alteration of the constitution to stay in power.<\/p>\n<p>Tandja&#8217;s death was announced in statement read on national television, with a decree of three days of national mourning.<\/p>\n<p>President Issoufou Mahamadou took to Twitter to express condolences to his family.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221;To his grieving family, and to the Nigerien people, I extend my sincere and sincere condolences. That his soul rests in peace&#8221;, he said.<\/p>\n<p>As a retired army colonel, Tandja promised to restore stability to the West African nation after he won elections in November 1999.<\/p>\n<p>He was re-elected in 2004, a first in Niger and was sharply criticized by opponents a year after over his handling of a hunger crisis, caused by drought and locusts plague.<\/p>\n<p>@<strong>AA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Niger (SONNA)-Former Nigerien president Mamadou Tandja has died aged 82, the government said Tuesday. Tandja, won election twice after the country&#8217;s return to civilian rule in 1999. He was overthrown ten years later following an alteration of the constitution to stay in power. Tandja&#8217;s death was announced in statement read on national television, with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401956,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401954\/revisions\/401956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}