Niger president held by troops: military sources

2010/02/18 12:55:54 @Reuters: World News

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger's President Mamadou Tandja was detained by mutinous troops on Thursday after a coup in the west African uranium exporter that left at least three soldiers dead, military sources said. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=hUOStgE4z-A:O2XfQc7GjhY:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=hUOStgE4z-A:O2XfQc7GjhY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=hUOStgE4z-A:O2XfQc7GjhY:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=hUOStgE4z-A:O2XfQc7GjhY:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=hUOStgE4z-A:O2XfQc7GjhY:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/hUOStgE4z-A" height="1" width="1"/
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