🇨🇮🇳🇪 Ivorian President Ouattara during a national address condemns the coup in Niger and says Côté d'Ivoire supports all ECOWAS decisions aimed at returning ex-President Mohamed Bazoum to power.

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🇳🇪 The Nigérien Ministry of Foreign Affairs published two press releases today. The first said that due to the intense anger of the local population against the sanctions targeting the country, Niamey cannot welcome any ECOWAS delegation in the capital.

The second press release announced the temporary suspension of flight permissions for diplomatic planes in Nigérien airspace.

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🇫🇷🇳🇪 Our trusted sources in the French army command said that following an urgent meeting on Monday, a working group was set up to evacuate French forces from Niger. And it is planned to evacuate them not to Chad, but directly to France. Negotiations are already underway with civilian shipping companies to plan the operation. The deadline for the complete withdrawal is March 2024.

Some in the French military believe that this decision will only hasten a repeat of a similar situation in Chad, so troops will have to be withdrawn from there as well.

Thus, France is not going to participate in the conflict or initiate an invasion of Niger. At the same time, the U.S., with the help of Nigeria, were pushing the French command to a forceful operation in the hope of bargaining more favorable conditions with the Niger junta to preserve their assets in the country. Most likely, it was these conditions, the fulfillment of which is necessary for the U.S. to recognize the new government, that Victoria Nuland conveyed during her visit.

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🇫🇷🇳🇪 We were also informed that the leadership of French intelligence DGSE was reprimanded by President Macron "for blatant unprofessionalism" for their failure to predict the coup in Niger in time.

It is noteworthy that just a month ago, DGSE boasted that it knew in advance about the plans of the rebellion of PMC "Wagner" in Russia.

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🇺🇳🇳🇪 UN chief concerned by "deplorable" living conditions of Niger's president

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he is very concerned about the reported "deplorable living conditions" of Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum and his family in arbitrary detention, a U.N. spokesperson said in a statement on Wednesday.

"The Secretary-General reiterates his concern over the health and safety of the President and his family and once again calls for his immediate, unconditional release and his reinstatement as Head of State," the U.N. spokesperson said.

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🇳🇪🇫🇷 Thousands of supporters of Niger's coup leaders gather in front of the French base in Niamey.

Crowds calling for French troops to leave Niger.

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🇳🇪🇫🇷 Nigerien authorities cut off electricity, water to French Embassy

Niger’s military administration has cut off water and electricity to the French Embassy in the capital Niamey with no food deliveries allowed.

The country’s leadership has also taken similar action at the French consulate in Zinder.

The president of the National Support Committee for the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country, Elh Issa Hassoumi Boureima, has asked all partners of French bases in Niger to suspend all water and electricity supplies and food products.

In addition, any partners who continue to help the French in the process of supplying the goods and services will be considered “enemies of the sovereign people.”

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🇧🇫🇳🇪 Burkina Faso troops join raid on militants in Niger

The armies of Burkina Faso and Niger have killed an unknown number of militants in joint operations, local media has reported.

The attack comes a week after Burkina Faso’s parliament approved the deployment of troops to Niger in order to fight the Islamist uprising along the countries' common border.

Burkina Faso’s state-owned RTB TV channel said on Sunday that raids where launched after troops spotted “a column of terrorists” leaving Niger for Burkina Faso.

Joint forces “neutralised these attackers in pairs on 100 motorbikes and destroyed most of their logistics” in eastern Burkina Faso's Kantchari area, the channel added.

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