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FRANCE NIGER Issue dated 03/07/2020

Alkache Alhada, the new interior minister with socialist credentials

New Nigerien interior minister Alkache Alhada. © State Audit Office of Hungary/YouTube

Alkache Alhada, who has taken over from Mohamed Bazoum at the strategically important Nigerien interior ministry, is on very good terms with President Mahamadou Issoufou. He also has longstanding links with the "Mr Africa" of the French socialist party, Guy Labertit, and the former Ivorian president Laurent Gbagbo. [...] (354 words)

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