DEVELOPING: Mutinous soldiers claim to have overthrown Niger’s democratically elected president.
During a stop in New Zealand on Thursday, Blinken repeated the U.S. condemnation of the mutiny against Niger’s president and said his team was in close contact with officials in France and Africa.
Ulf Laessing, head of the Sahel program at the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, said the mutiny was a “nightmare scenario for Western powers who had betted on Bazoum and Niger as new security anchor for the Sahel.” Before the announcement, hundreds of people took to the streets of the capital, Niamey, and chanted “No coup d’etat” while marching in support of the president. Multiple rounds of gunfire that appeared to come from the presidential palace dispersed the demonstrators and sent people scrambling for cover, according to an Associated Press reporter at the scene.
Earlier, Guterres condemned any effort to seize power by force ”in the strongest terms” and called on “all actors involved to exercise restraint and to ensure the protection of constitutional order,” spokesman Stephane Dujarric said.
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