Militaryjuntas in neighbouring burkina faso and mali warned that any Foreign Military intervention in niger, would be considered a Declaration Of War on them. A french mp for emmanuel macron s Renaissance Party spoke to the bbc about the countrys Evacuation Mission and said paris was left with no other choice. Translation we estimate that a few hundred people french people wish to leave, and have clearly expressed this intention, since we know that the tradition between European Countries is to show solidarity. If other European Countries decide to organise your evacuations, which is possible, we would Work Together to evacuate those who want to leave. Niger is a key part of africas sahel region which stretches from the atlantic to the red sea. Burkina faso and mali, have also seen recent military coups, and say, they would come to the defence of their neighbour. On sunday, the Regional Bloc ecowas made up of 15 west african countries, gave the coup leaders in niger one week to restore
2021, in the country s first peaceful transition. and that could be one reason. some other reasons however could be the fact that previous coups, you talked about on the state of them having been attempted over the last couple of years, three at least that were successful, yet seen what has happened after that, as much as there have been strong response from there have been strong response from the african union, ecowas, the economic community of west african states, and other regional international bodies as well, the coup plotters and still managed to stay in power and in some sense begin to establish normal relations with the rest of the world, and one then wonders, did these military leaders look at what was happening within the country, within the region, look at what previous trends i have been in regards to cookes and make similar decisions as well? so those are some of the reasons that have been touted as to the reason this coup happened, this seems to be progressing quite succ
president, mohamed bazoum. he comes from an ethnic minority, and there are questions about whether he had full support when he was sworn in back in 2021 in the country s first peaceful transition. and that could be one of the reasons. some of the other reasons, however, could also be the fact that previous coups you talked about, almost eight of them having been attempted over the last couple of years, three at least, that was successful. and you ve seen what s happened after that as much as they ve been strong responses from the african union ecowas, economic community of west african states and other regional and international bodies as well. the coup plotters still managed to stay in power and in some sense begin to establish normal relations with the rest of the world. and one then wonders, did these military leaders look at what was happening within the country, within the region, look at what previous trends they ve been in regards to coups and made a similar decisions as well? s