The soldiers warned against any foreign intervention, adding that they will respect Bazoum’s wellbeing.
Niger President Mohamed Bazoum has been removed from power, according to a group of soldiers who appeared on the West African nation’s national television late on Wednesday, hours after the president was held in the presidential palace.
The soldiers warned against any foreign intervention, adding that they will respect Bazoum’s well-being. Niger is also a key ally of the European Union in the fight against irregular migration from sub-Saharan Africa. “Bazoum has been the West’s only hope in the Sahel region. France, the U.S. and the EU have spent much of their resources in the region to bolster Niger and its security forces,” said Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel program for Germany’s Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung think-tank.
A junta also snatched power in Guinea in 2021, contributing to instability in a region that had begun to shed its reputation as a “coup belt”.
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