NIAMEY: Niger opposition leader and former premier Hama Amadou on Wednesday lost an appeal against a one-year jail term for baby smuggling, legal sources said.The case has becoming a long-running political saga in the Sahel country, with Amadou’s lawyers saying the prosecution is aimed at sidelining President Mahamadou Issoufou’s biggest rival. As Amadou lives in France, he was tried and convicted in absentia, and would have to return to Niger in order to serve his sentence. He is among a group of around 20 people, including one of his wives, who in March 2017 received one-year terms for allegedly smugging babies from Nigeria via Benin to wealthy couples in Niger.
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