The junta also invited citizens in the capital to take to the streets from 7 a.m. local time to protest against ECOWAS and show support for the new military leaders
Niger’s military leaders warned against any armed intervention in the country as West African leaders are set to gather in Nigeria’s capital on Sunday for an emergency summit to decide on further actions to pressure the army to restore constitutional order.
Niger is one of the poorest countries in the world, receiving close to $2 billion a year in official development assistance, according to the World Bank. It is also a security partner of former colonial power France and the United States, which both use it as a base to fight an Islamist insurgency in West and Central Africa’s wider Sahel region.
“The objective of the meeting is to approve a plan of aggression against Niger through an imminent military intervention in Niamey in collaboration with other African countries that are non-members of ECOWAS, and certain western countries,” junta spokesman Colonel Amadou Abdramane said. The military coup in Niger has been widely condemned by its neighbours and international partners who have refused to recognize the new leaders and have demanded that Bazoum be restored to power.
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