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
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this situation occur yet, we know that would allow the us to hold back all of their aid there, some has already been withdrawn, given the results of monday s meetings, using the