President Hamani Diori led Niger for 14 years after independence before being overthrown in a coup 1958 - Niger becomes autonomous republic of the French Community. 1960 - Niger becomes ...

L-R: President Hamani Diori of Niger; President Maurice Yameogo of Upper Volta, now Burkina Faso; President Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast; and President Hubert Maga of Dahomey, now Benin.

Hamani Diori, Niger’s first president, was ousted in a coup in 1974 [Gallo/Getty] January 1996: – Army officers stage a coup, saying political deadlock had threatened economic reforms ...

However, he first tasted the fruits of power in 1974 after taking part in Niger's first military coup, ousting President Hamani Diori. Mr Tandja was named interior minister and was also an ambassador ...

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Its founding fathers—Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal, Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia, Hamani Diori of Niger, and the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia—laid the groundwork for an ...

A French Army Harfang drone is shown at the Niger military airport Diori Hamani in Niamey. The U.S. ally has taken an interest in the region's security. (Dominique Faget/AFP via Getty Images) For ...

1974 - Hamani Diori overthrown in military coup led by Lt-Col Seyni Kountche. 1987 - Ali Seybou, the armed forces chief of staff, succeeds Kountche who dies of a brain tumour.