NIAMEY, Aug 20 — A delegation from West Africa’s main regional bloc Ecowas on Saturday met Niger’s ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and held talks with junta leader General...
NIAMEY, Aug 20 — A delegation from West Africa’s main regional bloc Ecowas on Saturday met Niger’s ousted President Mohamed Bazoum and held talks with junta leader General Abdourahmane Tiani in the capital Niamey, a Nigerian presidential spokesperson said.
The group that flew in was led by Nigeria’s former military leader Abdulsalami Abubakar and included Ecowas commission President Omar Touray, the source said. But in a televised address to the nation on Saturday evening, Tiani said neither coup leaders nor “the Nigerien people want war and remain open to dialogue.”
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