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
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
That they will be able to maintain some kind of a relationship with the united states government, that they weren t able to meet with president mohamed bazoum, i think is a military coup attitude, they are trying to control their power and are trying to make sure there are no images of the united states with the duly elected and still president of niger. that is just a palamo. but at this point, i wouldn t say that that interaction indicated a total loss of the relationship for the united states power move. i do think this is a fragile moment, period. i m not ready to count victoria nuland out yet. ready to count victoria nuland out et. , ., , out yet. present biden hasn t called this out yet. present biden hasn t called this situation - out yet. present biden hasn t called this situation occur- called this situation occur yet, we know that would allow the us to hold back all of their aid there, some has already been withdrawn, given the results of monday s meetings, using the
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.
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 darkness, cut off from electricity supply from