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NIAMEY, NIGER: Recent picture of Niger's presidential candidate Mamadou Tandja in Niamey. Tandja, a former interior minister from a military dictatorship in Niger took the lead 25 November 1999 in presidential elections, early results from the national electoral commission showed.
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