ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — A regional court in West Africa has called on Niger’s military government to release the nation’s detained former president.
The announcement came Monday from the Court of Justice for the Economic Community of West African States, a group of 15 nations with its own peacekeeping force. The decision asks Niger to release former President Mamadou Tandja, who was deposed last February in a military coup after he stayed in office months beyond his legal mandate.
During the coup, uniformed men stormed the presidential palace and kidnapped Tandja, who remains under house arrest.
Niger, a desperately poor country on the edge of the Sahara Desert, has a long tradition of strongmen seizing power by force since independence from France a half century ago.
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