ASHENEWS reports that a Coalition of Civil Liberty Organizations in Maradi state, Niger Republic (CODDAE), has faulted Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on the fresh sanctions imposed on the neighbouring.
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The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have resolved to urgently review efforts to activate a standby force for counterterrorism operations in areas infested by terrorist groups.
U.S. President Joe Biden said on Monday that he intends to end the participation of Gabon, Niger, Uganda, and the Central African Republic in the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) trade program.
European Union countries on Monday adopted a framework to impose sanctions on members of a junta that seized power in Niger.
President Emmanuel Macron of France said Thursday, that his country’s troops stationed in Niger Republic will begin withdrawing “this week”. This is coming after a falling-out with the military junta in power since a July coup.
France has finally yielded to pressure of the Nigerien military junta to leave the country after it’s earlier insistence to stay put.
The Niger Republic’s prime minister, Ali Zeine says said he saw hopes of a deal with the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which has threatened to use force to restore civilian rule after a coup in July.
UN agencies and non-governmental organisations have been barred from working in military “operation zones,” Niger’s Interior Ministry said.
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that “there would probably no longer be a Mali … Burkina Faso, and I’m not sure there would still be Niger”, without France’s military operations in the Sahel.
The coup in Gabon this week is most unlikely to be a regime change. Gen Brice Nguema, the head of the junta is a relation of the Bongo family and started his career as body guard to Omar Bongo, the father of the deposed President who had ruled for 42 years. The coup occurred minutes after President Ali Bongo had been declared winner of a rigged election. He had been incapacitated since he suffered from a stroke in 2019 and the optics of a president without the capacity to govern has been an issue since his stroke. The symbolism of someone who is incapable of exercising power rigging election after election posed the question of how much longer can the charade last. When there was an attempted coup in January 2019, the army responded immediately rounding up the culprits. As everyone knows, Gabon is too precious for France to allow regime change. In the coming days, it will become clearer who allowed this coup to succeed.