NIAMEY, Niger - Witnesses say armed soldiers have stormed the presidential palace with guns blazing and left with the president, whose whereabouts are unknown.
Moussa Mounkaila, a palace chauffeur, told The Associated Press that the gunmen showed up as a meeting of government ministers was taking place at the place.
A local journalist who was working at the palace, Traore Amadou, says President Mamadou Tandja was taken by the commandos Thursday and his whereabouts are unknown. Only months ago, a referendum allowed Tandja to extend his rule for years past the constitutional limit in the uranium-rich West African nation.
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3 comments:
See? There's more than one way to ensure that there are term limits.
Are they going to use the same headline when this happens at the White House?
That leaves this Country open for mineral rights Procurements..... Let's see who needs Uranium?
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