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
earlier i spoke to the former us ambassador to chad, mark boulware, who gave me his assessment of this fast moving situation. well, it is a tense and dangerous situation. and as time goes on, of course, the coup leaders, the junta consolidates its power. in the beginning, it was just the presidential guard who took this action and the military was apparently not completely on board with it. but over time, they decided to join in and and reinforce the junta. so now the military seems to be united around the around the coup, making it very difficult to reverse. hopefully, the intervention of president deby and his mediation on behalf of ecowas will bear fruit.