NIAMEY (Reuters) - Members of Niger's military junta and a transitional government due to be set up will not be allowed to stand in promised elections, the ruling junta said on Wednesday.
The junta, which overthrew President Mamadou Tandja last week after he had ruled the uranium-exporting West African nation for more than a decade, also said its priorities were to clean up politics and restore democracy. But it was reluctant to give a timetable.
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