FILE - Niger's Prime Minister Hama Amadou is seen at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Nov. 21, 2005. (AP Photo/Thierry Charlier, File) NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger's former Prime Minister ...

An embattled leader for decades in Niger’s rough-and-tumble politics, he alternated stints in high office with prison and exile. By Adam Nossiter Hama Amadou, a West African politician who alternated ...

Niger opposition leader and former Prime Minister Hama Amadou lost an appeal against a one-year jail term for baby smuggling, legal sources said. Amadou – who lives in France – was among a group of ...

A leading candidate in Niger's upcoming presidential elections may have to campaign from his prison cell after he was denied release by the country's appeals court on Monday, Reuters reports. Hama ...

A man gets a haircut and a shave in front of a campaign poster of incarcerated opposition candidate Hama Amadou in Niamey, Niger, February 15, 2016. Niger holds presidential and legislative elections ...

A Niger court has granted bail to an opposition leader who unsuccessfully campaigned from behind bars in the country's presidential elections in February. Hama Amadou was imprisoned in November 2015 ...

A Niger court on Monday (13 March) sentenced main opposition leader Hama Amadou a year in jail for baby trafficking. He was tried in absentia as he is in exile in France and did not appear in court ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s former Prime Minister Hama Amadou has died in a hospital in the country’s capital, Niamey. He had been suffering from medical problems for years. The death was confirmed ...

NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger’s former Prime Minister Hama Amadou died in a hospital in the country’s capital, Niamey, after years of suffering from medical problems, a former deputy and close friend ...

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