NARRATIVE – The president selected prisoner with his wife for two years has become a bulky hostage for the chief of the junta in power.
Releasing between four walls in a reduced of the presidential palace of Niamey, Mohamed Bazoum has not been born for two years. On July 26, 2023, Abdourahamane Tiani, the chief of his close guard, flew to him the power with the support of part of the Nigerian army. But, today, the putschist no longer knows what to do with his prisoner, who never wanted to resign from his duties as a democratically elected head of state in February 2021.
Abdourahamane Tiani, who recently autopromu general of the army, lives in the permanent fear of being overthrown in turn. He rarely moves away from his home located in the square of the presidential residence. Only a few meters from Mohamed Bazoum. He receives little with his wife Sabira Issa. He is wary of his visitors because he is the target of increasingly virulent criticisms of his ability to govern. In the population, but also in the circles of power and the constituted bodies, where the questioned people accept …
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