2023-08-13 23:47:15
The authors of the coup d’état in Niger announced on Sunday evening their intention to “prosecute” the ousted president Mohamed Bazoum for “high treason” and “undermining the security” of the country. Follow the latest developments in the situation in Niger hour by hour.
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4:24 a.m .: six soldiers and ten “terrorists” killed in western Niger
Six Nigerien soldiers and ten “terrorists” were killed Sunday in fighting in the west of the country, said a statement from the High Command of the National Guard read on television. Six soldiers, including the head of the mission, were killed and another was injured, according to the “provisional assessment” of the High Command.
Nigerien soldiers who were in five vehicles “engaged in pursuit” of suspected jihadists when they were ambushed around 11 a.m. (10 a.m. GMT) regarding 20 kilometers from the town of Sanam, in the west of the country, the statement said.
According to the same source, the ambush was set “by terrorists” who were driving “a dozen motorcycles”. “Ten terrorists” were killed during a “mopping operation” carried out by “air and ground reinforcements”, the statement said, and four of the attackers’ motorcycles were “destroyed”.
The locality of Sanam is located in the region of Tillabéri, in the so-called “three borders” zone located between Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso, the scene of numerous jihadist attacks.
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2:05 am: the military regime denounces the “illegal, inhuman and humiliating sanctions” of ECOWAS
The perpetrators of the coup in Niger that overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum denounced Sunday evening “the illegal, inhuman and humiliating sanctions” of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
The populations of Niger are “severely tried by the illegal, inhuman and humiliating sanctions of ECOWAS, which go so far as to deprive the country of pharmaceutical products, foodstuffs” and “electricity supply”, said one of the members of the regime, Colonel-Major Amadou Abdramane, in a press release read on national television.
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1:27 am: the junta announces that it wants to “prosecute” President Bazoum for “high treason”
The authors of the coup d’état in Niger announced on Sunday evening their intention to “prosecute” the ousted president Mohamed Bazoum for “high treason” and “undermining the security” of the country.
“The Nigerien government has to date gathered” the “evidence to prosecute before the competent national and international authorities the deposed president and his local and foreign accomplices, for high treason and undermining the internal and external security of Niger”, declared the colonel major Amadou Abdramane, one of the members of the regime, in a press release read on national television.
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The essential of the day of August 13
Nigerian Muslim religious leaders have returned to Abuja following meeting military junta officials in Niamey.
Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum, detained in his presidential residence in Niamey since a coup that overthrew him on July 26, meanwhile “had a visit from his doctor”, said one of his relatives. at AFP.
With AFP and Archyde.com
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