[5] Multiparty elections were held in February 1993, bringing the transition to an end; Mahamadou was not included in the government that was appointed on 23 April 1993.

[11] Later the same month, he was appointed Director-General of Banque Internationale pour l’Afrique au Niger (BIA-Niger), a major bank.

[16] Mahamadou was in Europe at the time of the 2023 Nigerien coup d'état, in which President Mohamed Bazoum was deposed by the military.

[17] Since then, he has stayed in Europe[18] and has continued to support Bazoum, currently detained in the presidential palace in Niamey, as president.

He also welcomed the imposition of sanctions by ECOWAS on the military junta as “very satisfactory and logical”, while insisting that anti-French demonstrations in Niamey did not represent the Nigerien people as a whole.