Earlier in 2009, the CSC warned that Dounia TV could be closed for showing film of Nigerien Police forcefully dispersing supporters of jailed former Prime Minister of Niger Hama Amadou during a Niamey protest.
A special congress of the MNSD-Nassara held in Zinder on 21 February 2009 elected Prime Minister Oumarou to succeed Amadou as MNSD President.
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In early August 2008 Zinder and Tillaberi sections of the MNSD proposed that Amadou be removed as party President.
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While Amadou was campaigning for the July 2004 municipal elections, the helicopter in which he was travelling reportedly crashed on July 14, 2004 at Magaria in eastern Niger.
Assoumane was arrested in early January 1998, along with Hama Amadou and Mohamed Bazoum, for alleged involvement in a plot to assassinate Mainassara.
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