International pressure mounts on Niger coup leaders as African Union tells mutineers to back down and return to their barracks in 15 days
General Abdourahmane Tiani, who was declared as the new head of state of Niger by leaders of a coup, meets ministers in Niamey / Photo: Reuters
This latest development comes in the wake of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking for the immediate release of Bazoum and the restoration of democratic order in the country. "All cooperation in the security field is suspended indefinitely with immediate effect" in addition to the end to budgetary aid, he added.
Blinken told journalists in Brisbane, Australia he had spoken to Bazoum by telephone, without providing further details.Soldiers from the Presidential Guard detained President Bazoum since Wednesday and announced that they had removed him from power. He questioned"the sense and scope of a security approach to the fight against terrorism which excludes any real collaboration with Burkina Faso and Mali."
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