Niger: former Interior Minister Cissé Ousmane Ibrahim detained

Police patrol in Niamey in March 2016 (illustration).

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In Niger, the former Minister of the Interior Cissé Ousmane Ibrahim was arrested and imprisoned on Friday April 8.

He was accused of undermining state security in the failed coup attempt on March 31, 2021, two days before the inauguration of new President Mohamed Bazoum. 

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Cissé Ousmane Ibrahim arrived under good escort on Friday evening at the civil prison of Birnin Ngaouré, located about a hundred kilometers from Niamey.

By signing the warrant of committal, the investigating judge asks the prison warden to “ 

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From a judicial source, Cissé Ousmane Ibrahim is accused of conspiracy aimed at undermining the authority or the security of the State in the attempted coup d'état foiled on March 31, 2021, two days before the investiture of the new president Mohamed Bazoum.

Articles 79 and 261 of the Code of Military Justice are cited.

Cissé Ousmane Ibrahim was Minister of the Interior under the transition of General Salou Djibo who overthrew President Mamadou Tandja.

He then became Niger's ambassador to Chad, before being disembarked, heard by the courts and imprisoned.

According to several sources, it is above all the last attempt to destabilize the Niamey regime that would have thrown Ousmane Cissé into prison.

While President Mohamed Bazoum was on a state visit to Turkey from March 9 to 13, for the purchase of military equipment worth nearly 200 billion CFA francs, the Intelligence Services thwarted a second coup attempt. State in Niamey.

Two officers were arrested.

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