though there were other factors at work in the coup besides pro-Russian sentiment in the military, including Bazoum’s Arab ethnicity in a Hausa-majority country (Arabs form less than 1% of the population) (AfricaNews, February 19, 2021)....
NIAMEY, Niger (AP) — Niger's security forces thwarted an attempted military coup at the West African country's presidential palace overnight just two days before the newly elected president is to be sworn into office in a peaceful transfer of power, the government said Wednesday. The coup at...
On Sunday, however, it was the coup leaders who took action, closing Niger's airspace after rejecting the ECOWAS ultimatum. The Associated Press quoted a spokesman for the coup leaders, Col. Maj. Amadou Abdramane, as noting "the threat of intervention being prepared in a neighboring country"...
Both Western powers seem to favor a “Rwanda” type solution to the coup in Niger, but rather than have Rwanda enter Niger the hope was for ECOWAS — the Economic Community of West African States — to send in its force to restore Bazoum. A day after the coup, ECOWAScondemnedthe coup....
Now let's go over a few basic facts about Niger's president Mamadou Tandja and the roots of the coup. The 71-year-old Tandja first took power in 1999. But instead of stepping down as mandated by law, he triggered a political crisis by pushing through laws removing term limits. The ...
Just days before Thursday's coup, Wade had been named mediator for Niger's political crisis by ECOWAS, a regional bloc of 15 West African countries. After three coups hit Niger between 1974 and 1999, Tandja twice won votes deemed fair. But in the waning months of his final term, critics...
The West African regional body - known as ECOWAS - has previously threatened the use of force if coup leaders in Niger do not reinstate the country's elected president. This is a modal window. Video Unavailable Technical details : This video is currently unavailable ...
A top Pentagon official says that the U.S. has not received a formal request from Niger’s junta to depart the country, saying instead it has received mixed signals on whether the hundreds of U.S. troops based there are no longer welcome.
Earlier on Friday, coup leaders in Niger declared General Abdourahamane Tiani as the new head of state in the wake of the seventh military takeover in West and Central Africa in less than three years. "We remain deeply concerned about the unfolding developments ... the ...
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