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
To put itself really out there on a limb to try to help things move along, and the leadership at ecowas. if there is a way to somehow talk this group into really looking at what its options are, if this group of military men who have taken over really are doing this for the nigerian people and you can see the suffering that suffering that is causing and the suffering in the nigerien public, they should be able to sit down with the leaders of ecowas and whatever external good friends there to try to work a way out. i think that is possible if, again, if these soldiers really are considering the population. i do think the window is, in it was a caller, small, think the timeline is short for that and the longer that this kind of period, this period lasts, the worse it is