Mohamed Bazoum

**Mohamed Bazoum** (), is a Nigerien politician who was the president of the Republic of Niger. He was in office from 2 April 2021 until he was removed from office on 27 July 2023.

Before becoming a President, he was the President of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism (PNDS-Tarayya).

In December 2022, Mohamed Bazoum was appointed current president of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), during the 23rd ordinary summit of heads of state and government of the organization in Abidjan.

On 26 July 2023, soldiers of the Presidential Guard removed Bazoum from power and arrested him. When his removal was announce, Colonel-Major Amadou Abdramane went on state television to claim that the President had been removed from power and was being replaced by a military junta calling itself the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland. On August 13, 2023, the government of Niger announced that it wanted to "prosecute before the competent national and international authorities Mohamed Bazoum and his local and foreign accomplices, for high treason and undermining the internal and external security of Niger". On November 30, 2023, Mohamed Bazoum's family claimed that they had no longer been in contact with him since October 18, 2023, and denounced "abusive arrests and searches" targeting some of them.

In June 2024, the Supreme Court of Niger lifted the immunity of Mohamed Bazoum, accused of high treason, an offense punishable by death in Niger, and other alleged offenses. Mohamed Bazoum refused to sign his resignation and remained imprisoned with his wife by the Nigerien junta, in his presidential residence.

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **honorific prefix**: His Excellency
- **name**: Mohamed Bazoum
محمد بازوم
- **image**: Mohamed Bazoum at the European Commission - P060245-844068 (cropped).jpg
- **caption**: Mohamed Bazoum in 2023
- **office**: 10th List of heads of state of Niger, President of Niger
- **primeminister**: Ouhoumoudou Mahamadou
- **term start**: 2 April 2021
- **term end**: 26 July 2023
- **predecessor**: Mahamadou Issoufou
- **successor**: Abdourahamane Tchiani, Omar Tchiani
 Hassoumi Massaoudou
- **office1**: President of the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism
- **term start1**: March 2011
- **term end1**: 20 December 2022
- **predecessor1**: Mahamadou Issoufou
- **successor1**: Foumakoye Gado
- **office2**: Ministry of Interior, Public Safety and Decentralization (Niger), Minister of the Interior
- **term start2**: 13 April 2016
- **term end2**: 29 June 2020
- **predecessor2**: Hassoumi Massaoudou
- **successor2**: Alkache Alhada
- **president2**: Mahamadou Issoufou
- **primeminister2**: Brigi Rafini
- **office3**: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and African Integration, Minister of Foreign Affairs
- **term start3**: 21 April 2011
- **term end3**: 25 February 2015
- **predecessor3**: Touré Aminatou Maiga
- **successor3**: Aïchatou Boulama Kané
- **president3**: Mahamadou Issoufou
- **primeminister3**: Brigi Rafini
- **term start4**: 1995
- **term end4**: 1996
- **predecessor4**: Abdourahmane Hama
- **successor4**: André Salifou
- **president4**: Mahamane Ousmane
- **primeminister4**: Amadou Cissé
- **office5**: Member of the National Assembly (Niger), National Assembly
- **term start5**: February 2005
- **term end5**: unknown
- **constituency5**: unknown
- **constituency6**: Tesker
- **term start6**: 11 April 1993
- **term end6**: January 1995
- **birth name**: Mohamed Bazoum
- **birth place**: :de:Bilabrin (N’Guigmi), Bilabrine, N'guigmi Cercle (French colonial), Cercle, French Niger
- **party**: Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism
- **spouse**: Hadiza Ben Mabrouk
- **alma mater**: Cheikh Anta Diop University
- **blank1**: Religion
- **data1**: Sunni Islam
- **blank2**: Ethnicity
- **data2**: Diffa Arabs, Diffa Arab