2023-08-10 19:17:53
ECOWAS ordered the deployment “immediate” why “standby strength” to restore constitutional order in Niger, at the end of an extraordinary summit organized in Abuja (Nigeria), Thursday, August 10. The organization had already presented an ultimatum to the military in power on July 30, which had expired on Monday without consequence. However, ECOWAS emphasizes “his commitment to the restoration of constitutional order by peaceful means”, said Omar Touray, President of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States. Follow our live.
Niger’s military regime has formed a government. It was through a decree read on national television overnight from Wednesday to Thursday that the country’s new strongman, General Abdourahamane Tiani, announced the formation of a 21-member government led by the new Prime Minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, appointed on Monday. The Defense and Interior portfolios were assigned to generals of the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Fatherland (CNSP) which took power.
The head of the UN “very concerned” regarding the conditions of detention of Mohamed Bazoum. Antonio Guterres denounced on Wednesday “the deplorable conditions in which President Bazoum and his family would live”, the UN said in a statement. The party of the elected head of state claimed that he was sequestered without water or electricity and lived on reserves.
The military in power accuse France of having violated Niger’s airspace. THE “French forces took off” Wednesday from N’Djamena (Chad), “a military plane”says the CNSP, which also accuses Paris of having “freed from terrorists”. According to the Quai d’Orsay, “the air movement carried out today in Niger was the subject of a prior agreement (…) with the Nigerien forces”. And to specify: “No terrorist has been released by the French forces”.
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