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. Bbc correspondent chris ewokor is following the story from the neighbouring nigeria. It is one day after the expiration of the alternation given to the coup leaders by ecowas to reinstate president mohamed bazoum. The leaders are due to meet later this week to agree on the demands by ecowas mac defence chiefs and other matters which will help them resolve this diplomatically. Believers want to make very clear that coup or military takeover of the government in the region will no longer be acceptable. Meanwhile, here in North Western nigeria the board remains closed against niger. Long lines of vehicles, lorries, carrying loads covered with tombola, have been stranded with their drive
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
This is going to take co ordinated thought, if we take our eye off the ball in any area like niger and allow russia and china to continue to move the flags of authoritarian movements we will see it impacting both our freedoms and our allies. the philippine government has released video of china shooting water cannons at their own vessels in the south china sea and the us says it has a right to defend itself as tensions rise over those crucial water ways, do you think the us is doing enough to defend those international waterways? we certainly have a presence and we have asserted that these are international waterways, what we re from china, it is why people are so worried about taiwan, is it is notjust about taiwan for china, they are looking at a broader area where they want influence and where they want to rule and so we have to make certain that we work with nations to ensure that, you know, international territorial waters remain international waters. former us ambassador to un, ni
Cooperatively and the fact that these two nations are working together and openly stating that their goal is to go against democracy and to promote their authoritarian regimes and other authoritarian regimes and other authoritarian regimes around the world, this is going to take co ordinator work, if we take our eye off the ball in any area like niger and allow russia and china to continue to move the flags of authoritarian movements we will see it impacting both our freedoms and our allies. the philippine freedoms and our allies. the philippine government has released video of china shooting water cannons at their own vessels in the south china sea and the us as it has a right to defend itself as tensions rise of those crucial water rates, do you think the us is doing enough to defend those international waterways? we certainly have a presence and we have asserted that these are international waterways, what we re from china, it is why people are so worried about i want, is it is no