In Niger, ten new people are registered on the FPGE, the file of people or entities involved in acts of terrorism or in offenses harming the interests of the nation. A first list was published last month. This second list includes others close to former president Mohamed Bazoum, overthrown in July 2023, including two former ministers. And for the first time, Toubous rebel leaders.
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The former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hassoumi Massoudou and Alkache Alhada, former Minister of the Interior then of Commerce, both prosecuted for conspiracy and treason before the military tribunal, now appear in the “File of Persons, Groups of Persons or Entities involved in acts of terrorism or in offenses affecting the strategic and/or fundamental interests of the Nation or likely to seriously disturb public tranquility and security” (FPGE).
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Others close to the ousted president, Mohamed Bazoumsuspected of disseminating data likely to disturb public order, appear in the file. In total, ten names are added to the FPGE created last August, specifies our journalist Magali Lagrange.
Toubous leaders added
From now on, Toubous rebel leaders also appear on this list: Mahmoud Sallah, at the head of the Patriotic Front for Liberation, who claimed responsibility for sabotaging the pipeline linking Niger to Benin, and Mohamed Tori, of the Patriotic Front for Justice who claimed the capture of the prefect of Bilma and his delegation in June.
People registered with the FPGE have three months to contest. All are currently in exile. The consequences are immediate: travel ban, freezing of assets, and possible provisional forfeiture of Nigerien nationality by decree.
Nine other people have already been provisionally stripped of their nationality last month.
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