The United States has ordered non-emergency personnel and their families to evacuate the U.S. Embassy in Niger following a military coup that unseated democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum.
After a week-long ordeal that saw them at the center of a dangerous military coup, members of a church group stranded in war-torn Niger have learned they may be coming home Friday.
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Supporters of the junta that took over Niger in a coup last week marched through the capital and attacked the French Embassy on Sunday, as a regional bloc raised the possibility of military intervention if the president of the West African country was not reinstated soon.