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
Here is, as you will hear the reports that maybe they will be pulling in the wagner group and the group that did the coup, it might be aligned with russia, versus democracy push here, think that is why people are so concerned because as you look in the region it is what has happened with mali and others, this is really an important pivot point to hopefully restore democracy. if we move to the situation in ukraine, china is obviously providing assistance to russia in that war there, it did attend the peace talks injeddah over the weekend for the first time, talks which excluded russia, do you support a third round of talks? i think ultimately this is going to have to be a diplomatic resolution and i think talks are certainly helpful. when president xi stood with vladimir putin in russia and they had their open mic incident where they captured their conversation, president xi said we are bringing about change that hasn t happened in 100 years, that 100 years is world
Military operations very near to alaska. the us in response moving four navy warships in place in recent days, how concerned are you about that? i m very concerned about the co ordination that is happening between russia and china. but again, back to president xi s statement, this is a long term plan from both of these nations, russia and china working together as to what they see to go against democracy, they see it in rising up against nato and the eu and opposition and they have the united states as a self declared adversary. so we re going to have to watch this, but is going to take unified efforts from both the eu, nato, and the united states to make sure we counter this. so what specifically would you like to see the us doing then? i think we need to work 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 around the world,
About the situation in niger and other international crises. chairman turner, thanks forjoining us. we ll start off just looking at niger. niger s coup leaders have closed the country s air space citing potential intervention from other countries in the region to reinstate the president. the us has about 1100 troops there, a drone base there. the biden administration is pausing some aid, but hasn t pulled it all back and it hasn t called it a coup yet either, should they? i think by now everyone is hoping this is reversible, this is the concern of authoritarianism versus a democracy, democracy we hope be restored. it certainly is a very tense time right now, but i think certainly both the united states, the eu, and others are looking at how we can restore peace from this conflict. does it have any potential impact on us military operations in the region? certainly, think it affects everyone. what is really key