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Niger is a multiparty republic that returned to democracy in 1999 following coups in 1996 and 1999; it has a population estimated at 14 million. In 2004 Mamadou Tandja was elected to his second five-year presidential term in an election that international observers deemed generally free and fair. Four parties joined the ruling coalition of the National Movement for the Development of Society (MNSD) and the Democratic and Social Convention (CDS) to win a majority of national assembly seats. Civilian authorities generally maintained effective control of the security forces.
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US -Iraq -Niger -Military -Nuclear -Intelligence -Secrets -Politics -Dick Cheney -Lewis Libby -Kansas - "Playing Hardball With Secrets." "For more than two years, Senate Republicans have dragged out an investigation into how the Bush administration came to use bogus intelligence on Iraq to justify a war. A year ago, [Kansas Republican] Pat Roberts, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called it "a monumental waste of time" to consider whether the White House manipulated intelligence to exaggerate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein." "Meanwhile, the evidence has steadily mounted that President Bush and his team not only did that before the war, but kept right on doing it after the invasion. The most recent additions to this pile came yesterday, in reports by The New York Sun, The National Journal and other news organizations on documents from the case against Lewis Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Cheney who is charged with lying about the unmasking of Valerie Wilson, a covert C.I.A. agent."
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In November and December 2004, Niger held presidential and legislative elections. Tandja Mamadou was elected to his second 5-year presidential term with 65% of the vote in an election that international observers called generally free and fair. This was the first presidential election with a democratically elected incumbent and a test to Niger�s young democracy.
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President Mamadou Tandja celebrated the third anniversary of his election as President and the return to democracy in Niger on December 22, 2002. The President thanked “international institutions and partners who quickly and diligently came to Niger’s side bringing the means necessary to allow Niger to get to its feet again” after the restoration of democracy. Celebratory ceremonies were held in the Seyni Kountché Stadium to mark the occasion.
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