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Military candidates barred from standing in elections

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The plane was reported to have crashed last week at Kamina military base, in central Katanga Province
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    Niger's new military government decreed on Thursday that military candidates will be barred from submitting their names as candidates in elections pledged for later this year. News organisations quoted a decree signed by the military leader, Major Daouda Mallam Wanke as saying the ban would also apply to himself and the 13 other officers in the country's ruling National Reconciliation Council (NRC). Wanke assumed power after members of the presidential guard unit he commanded assassinated President Ibrahim Bare Mainassara on 9 April. The decree broadcast on state radio added: "Military personnel will be barred from seeking electoral office even if they have resigned." Wanke has pledged a nine-month transition to civilian rule.

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