Niger Coup

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With funding frozen since the Niger coup, a Niger-Benin road project to facilitate access of Nigerien goods has stalled.

Niger’s military leaders greet supporters at a rally in Seyni-Kountché stadium in Niamey on 26 August, a day after they ordered the French ambassador to leave. (Photo: AFP)

home guard

Premium badgeNiger: 5 questions over call for civilian mobilisation against ECOWAS Thousands of Nigeriens have shown interest in volunteering for a civil defence force, even though the process has not officially begun.
Colonel Sadiba Koulibaly (L) and Colonel Mamady Doumbouya (R), coup leaders in Guinea. (©JA Montage: John Wessels/AFP/All rights reserved)

trend setting

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blocked ambitions

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Premium badgeCoup d’état in Niger: Is Niamey-Cotonou corridor a lost cause? With funding frozen since the Niger coup, a Niger-Benin road project to facilitate access of Nigerien goods has stalled.
Niger’s military leaders greet supporters at a rally in Seyni-Kountché stadium in Niamey on 26 August, a day after they ordered the French ambassador to leave. (Photo: AFP)

home guard

Premium badgeNiger: 5 questions over call for civilian mobilisation against ECOWAS Thousands of Nigeriens have shown interest in volunteering for a civil defence force, even though the process has not officially begun.
Colonel Sadiba Koulibaly (L) and Colonel Mamady Doumbouya (R), coup leaders in Guinea. (©JA Montage: John Wessels/AFP/All rights reserved)

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Premium badgeCoups in Francophone Africa in past three years – a timeline Eight governments have been overthrown in Francophone African countries in the past three years.

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projects suspended

Premium badgeCoup d’état in Niger: Is Niamey-Cotonou corridor a lost cause? With funding frozen since the Niger coup, a Niger-Benin road project to facilitate access of Nigerien goods has stalled.
Niger’s military leaders greet supporters at a rally in Seyni-Kountché stadium in Niamey on 26 August, a day after they ordered the French ambassador to leave. (Photo: AFP)

home guard

Premium badgeNiger: 5 questions over call for civilian mobilisation against ECOWAS Thousands of Nigeriens have shown interest in volunteering for a civil defence force, even though the process has not officially begun.
Colonel Sadiba Koulibaly (L) and Colonel Mamady Doumbouya (R), coup leaders in Guinea. (©JA Montage: John Wessels/AFP/All rights reserved)

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Abdel-Fatau Musah, commissioner for political affairs, peace and security at the Economic Community of West Africa States. (Photo: ECOWAS)

what revolution?

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Guinea’s interim president, Mamadi Doumbouya. (AFP/John Wessels)

middle man

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Abdel-Fatau Musah, commissioner for political affairs, peace and security at the Economic Community of West Africa States. (Photo: ECOWAS)

Talking tough

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© FILE PHOTO: Niger’s President Mohamed Bazoum addresses the 77th Session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 22, 2022. REUTERS/Mike Segar

sanctions bite

Niger generals vow to prosecute ousted president for ‘high treason’ Military leaders said they would prosecute Bazoum ‘for high treason and undermining the internal and external security of Niger’.
File photo: A convoy of Nigerien soldiers patrol outside the town of Ouallam, Niger in 2021. (REUTERS/Media Coulibaly)

kinetic knowhow

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Police officers at a rally in support of the junta in Niamey on 30 July 2023. (© AFP)

warm seats

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