What is Mamadou Tandja?
{{Infobox president | name = Mamadou Tandja | image = Tandja in Nigeria June 2007.jpg | imagesize = 200px | order = 7th [[President of Niger]] | primeminister = [[Ibrahim Hassane Mayaki]]<br />[[Hama Amadou]]<br />[[Seyni Oumarou]]<br />[[Albadé Abouba]] <small>(Acting)</small><br />[[Ali Badjo Gamatié]] | term_start = 22 December 1999 | term_end = 18 February 2010 | predecessor = [[Daouda Malam Wanké]] | successor = [[Salou Djibo]] <small>(President of the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy)</small> | birth_date = 1938 | birth_place = [[Maïné-Soroa]], [[French West Africa]] (now [[Niger]]) | death_date = {{death date and given age|2020|11|24|82|df=y}} | death_place = [[Niamey]], Niger | spouse = Laraba Tandja | party = [[National Movement for the Development of Society]] }} [[Lieutenant Colonel]] (ret.) '''Mamadou Tandja''' (1938 – 24 November 2020) was a [[Niger]]ien politician. He was [[List of heads of state of Niger|President of Niger]] from 1999 to 2010. He was removed from office by the military in a [[2010 Nigerien coup d'etat|coup d'état]] in February 2010. Tandja died of a long-illness on 24 November 2020 at a hospital in [[Niamey]], [[Niger]] at the age of 82.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mamane |first1=Dalatou |title=Niger's former President Mamadou Tandja dies at age 82 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/nigers-president-mamadou-tandja-dies-age-82-74386679 |access-date=25 November 2020 |work=ABC News |date=24 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Tandja, Mamadou}} [[Category:1938 births]] [[Category:2020 deaths]] [[Category:Presidents of Niger]] {{bio-stub}}