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
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
Among the injured are at least 19 police officers, five rescuers, and a child. The head of the Donetsk Region said the strikes damaged a hotel as well as shops and administrative buildings. Meanwhile, ukraines Intelligence Agency announced that it arrested a woman in connection with an alleged assassination plot against president zelensky. The woman was allegedly preparing a russian airstrike in the mikolaiv region during mr zelensky s visit to the area. Our ukraine correspondent James Waterhouse has more. So these are quite interesting allegations emerging from the southern mykolaiv region. Sources at the Security Forces have told us they have arrested a woman who is accused of travelling around the local area, taking pictures of Different Military sites, and sharing them with her russian handlers. But these are part of a string of allegations which include her trying to get hold of the itinerary of an official visit by president zelensky and trying to share that with moscow, which wo
Action by ecowas. this statement focused on the need for citizens to reawaken their patriotic spirit in the wake of economic sanctions imposed by ecowas mac. neighbouring mali and burkina faso have showed solidarity to the coup leaders. they sent a junta delegation in support of thejunta. they sent a junta delegation in support of the junta. the sentence imposed on the country continue to take effect. the price of commodities have gone up price of commodities have gone up and niger remains darkness, cut off from electricity supply from nigeria. chris ewokor, bbc news, at the border with niger. meanwhile, a state department spokesman says that following the military coup, more than $100 million of aid to niger has been suspended and would be withheld until president bazoum is reinstated. secretary of state s antony blinken said in a statement that:
Trade can only happen when there is peace. peace has been threatened. there are situations of instability such as looting in this place. if it happens in niger and it is not controlled it could have some kind of repercussions. across the border in niger state run tv on monday urged people in niger to mobilise against threats to the country amid looming military action by ecowas. the statement focused on the need for citizens to reawaken their patriotic spirit in the wake of economic sanctions imposed by ecowas. neighbouring mali and burkina faso have showed solidarity to the coup leaders. they sent a junta delegation in support of the junta on monday. but the sanctions imposed on the country continue to take effect. the price of commodities have gone up and niger remains in darkness, cut off from electricity supply from nigeria. chris ewokor, bbc news, sokoto, at the border with niger.