The European Union and France have reduce off monetary help to Niger and america has threatened to do the identical following this week’s army coup, because the African Union known as on the coup’s army leaders to return to their barracks.
The commander of Niger’s presidential guard, Common Abdourahamane Tchiani, on Friday declared himself the pinnacle of a transitional authorities after his troopers took President Mohamed Bazoum into custody on Wednesday.
The African Union additionally demanded the army in Niger “return to their barracks and restore constitutional authority” inside 15 days because it grabbed energy.
Tchiani beforehand led the resistance to a failed coup in March 2021, when troops tried to take over the presidential palace days earlier than the swearing-in of the then-newly elected Bazoum.
The professional-West Bazoum’s election marked the primary peaceable switch of energy since Niger gained its independence from France in 1960.
Al Jazeera’s Ahmed Idris studies from Abuja, in neighbouring Nigeria.
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