Final Sunday, West African leaders gave the army junta in Niger a week-long ultimatum for a “full return to constitutional order”, saying they didn’t rule out a “use of power” if not not the case. Comply with the scenario in Niger dwell.
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6:39 a.m .: final hours earlier than a attainable army intervention in Niger
The strain of the worldwide neighborhood is rising on the putschists who took energy in Niger, just a few hours earlier than the tip of Sunday’s ultimatum from the West African bloc (ECOWAS).
On July 30, 4 days after the coup try in opposition to President-elect Mohamed Bazoum, ECOWAS gave the putschists seven days, i.e. till Sunday night, to revive him to workplace, below penalty of utilizing ” power”.
A number of West African armies resembling Senegal have stated they’re able to ship troopers, as has CĂ´te d’Ivoire, in response to a supply near the Ivorian delegation in Abuja who didn’t specify the attainable variety of males mobilized.
In Mali and Burkina Faso, the putschist troopers warned that they’d stand in solidarity with their neighbor in Niger.
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1:17 am: Algeria “categorically refuses any army intervention” in Niger
The army intervention in Niger “is a direct menace to Algeria. We categorically refuse any army intervention,” Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune stated in a tv interview with the Algerian press broadcast on Saturday night.
He hammered that “there might be no answer with out us [l’Algerie]. We’re the primary involved. “Algeria shares virtually a thousand kilometers” of border with Niger, he underlined.
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The necessities of the day of August 5
France, via the voice of the Minister of Overseas Affairs, Catherine Colonna, affirmed, on Saturday August 5, that it supported “with firmness and willpower” the efforts of ECOWAS to defeat the putsch try in Niger. A press release that comes on the eve of the tip of an ultimatum from the West African bloc, which says it is able to intervene militarily. As well as, the top of French diplomacy estimated on Saturday on RFI that the questioning of the French counter-terrorism system within the Sahel is “not on the agenda”. In Nigeria, voices have been raised, even within the Senate, to ask President Bola Tinubu, head of the West African bloc, to rethink the concept of ​​a attainable army intervention in Niger.
With AFP
