France says it has no plans to withdraw around 1,000 of its soldiers based in niger where they are part of an International Effort to fight islamist militants. Aichatou kane is the nigerian ambassador to paris and the uk she has been in contact with president bazoum in niger and just before we came on air she told me how he is doing. The president of niger. Effectively, we have a daily call and is still a serious threat. But he is well and his morale is high as well as his familys morale. Does he think there will be a solution . And does he know when hell be freed . No, no, he dont talk with us on his terms. But as you know, the Prime Minister of niger is here in paris with him. We exchanged on the prevailing situation in niger, which is most worrying. And what is the Prime Minister saying . 0ur exchange is about the niger situation. We think together that this unfortunate event for our country cannot be caused by any internal crisis on all fronts. We are on a good trajectory, particul
one thing is the ecowas community. the ecowas coomunity says that we have a simple assumption, which will be that they will be settled. and if this don t success, we can have an intervention. the only thing i know is that. but this ultimatum that ecowas has given that there needs to be some kind of resolution to this within seven days. do you believe that they will take some kind of action if if the coup leaders don t reinstate president bazoum? we hope that the ongoing negotiations can lead to a peaceful solution. because it is the best issue for our country.