A military tribunal in Niger has convicted six soldiers for their role in a 2002 mutiny, but has acquitted 57 co-defendants, say legal sources.
Soldiers mutinied in Niamey on the night of August 4-5th 2002, in support of a 10-day mutiny by comrades demanding better pay and conditions hundreds of kilometres away in Diffa, near the border with Nigeria.
A military tribunal in Kollo, just outside Niamey, tried 63 soldiers for acts harmful to state security, insurrection and rebellion.
Full report (News 24 SA) 10 March 2006.
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