Mamadou Tandja

Lieutenant Colonel (ret.) Mamadou Tandja (1938 – 24 November 2020) was a Nigerien politician. He was President of Niger from 1999 to 2010. He was removed from office by the military in a 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.