Mamadou tandja biography of albert einstein

President of Niger from to

Mamadou Tandja ( – 24 November ) was a Nigerien politician who was President of Niger from to He was President of the National Movement for the Development of Society (MNSD) from to and unsuccessfully ran as the MNSD's presidential candidate in and before being elected to his first term in While serving as President of Niger, he was also Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States from to

Tandja was of mixed Fula and Soninke ethnicity.^[1] He was the first President of Niger who was not ethnically Hausa or Djerma.^[2]

Following a constitutional crisis in , which was caused by Tandja's efforts to remain in office beyond his term, he was ousted by the military in a coup d'état on 18 February

Early life, coup, the Kountché regime and the MNSD

Tandja was born in Maïné-Soroa, French West Africa in , in the south-eastern part of what is now Niger.

After joining the Nigerien army and rising to the rank