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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
February 19, 2010
NIAMEY, Niger — Renegade soldiers in armored vehicles stormed Niger’s presidential palace with a hail of gunfire in broad daylight, kidnapping President Mamadou Tandja and then appearing on state television to declare they staged a successful coup.
The soldiers also said Thursday that the....