A foreign power is preparing to attack. It comes after the expiry of a sunday deadline from west African Regional bloc ecowas, which demanded the coup be reversed. The group now plans to hold an Emergency Summit on thursday. Meanwhile, the United States is suspending more than 100 million in aid to niger. But officials insist theres still time to solve the crisis. The window of opportunity is definitely still open. We believe that they should step aside and allow president Mohamed Bazoum to resume his duties, today, tomorrow, anytime in the nearfuture. They dont want to put a time when that window be close, would you say that using diplomacy to achieve this objective is our top priority with respect to niger. Our correspondent chris ewokor following the story from neighbouring nigeria. It is one day after the expiration of the ultimatum given to niger coup leaders by ecowas to reinstate president Mohamed Bazoum. The leaders are due to meet on thursday this week to deliberate on the pro
To defend themselves, citing the threat of Foreign Military intervention. They claim to have information a foreign power is preparing to attack. It comes after the expiry of a sunday deadline from west African Regional bloc ecowas, which demanded the coup be reversed. The group now plans to hold an Emergency Summit on thursday. Meanwhile, the United States is suspending more than 100 million in aid to niger. But officials insist theres still time to solve the crisis. I spoke to former state Department Official Bisa Williams earlier to get insights into the situation. We are now learning more about the Acting Deputy Secretary of states unsuccessful attempts to negotiate some kind of settlement to see a return to power of president Mohamed Bazoum. Why do you think she wasnt able to make any progress there . Im not sure i would characterise that as unsuccessful completely. My understanding was that the Acting Deputy Secretary left the door open for continued discussions and that basically
There was no other outcome. ambassador, we have seen the regional block of west african nations, ecowas, and the deadline for president bazoum tabea be reinstated, we have seen the deadline come and go, there has no intervention yet from them, how critical are the next few days? i do think that it was really important for ecowas to say this was a huge mistake, we will give you a week to rectify it. so, correct, that week has transpired. i didn t interpret that to mean that one minute after that week they were going to intervene, now, if there was really going to be an intervention, think that is what they have been planning, i think it is really important for ecowas to stand on its ground and to say and to mean that they want to preserve the beginning of the democratic transition that niger was showing and that clearly the states of ecowas are concerned about stability in the region, security and stability in the region, so i think the leadership did and had to take the move that they
Administration should now call this situation a coup?- this situation a coup? if the united states this situation a coup? if the united states government | this situation a coup? if the - united states government really is committed to trying to use its good officers to talk to this group of officers who have taken this very drastic measure, then we need to put all the support behind them as possible. so i would refrain from calling this a coup. i can .com i am civilian, i am from calling this a coup. i can .com i am civilian, iam no longer the government, it is obvious they are a group of military men are acting like they re trying to run things go my understanding legal situation of the united states government and i would hold off on thatjuly was absolutely convinced there was no other outcome. convinced there was no other outcome- convinced there was no other outcome. , ., ., outcome. ambassador, we have seen the regional outcome. ambassador, we have seen the regional block-