Abdoulaye Seydou sported a panama hat and a perfectly trimmed beard for his first press conference on 22 August after seven months' detention in Niamey's central prison. The coordinator of M62, a sovereignist movement in Niger hostile to France, was arrested in January and sentenced in April to nine months in prison for "disseminating false information likely to disturb public order and complicity in arson."
General Abdourhamane Tchiani, the leader of the junta behind the 26 July putsch, has made
