Moving closer to russia, which happened after coups in neighbouring burkina faso and mali. Later, leaders from the 15 countries that make up the Economic Community of west african states, and the eight leaders from the west African Economic and monetary union, will meet to discuss their response. Brandon kendhammer is politics professor at Ohio University and expert on politics in west africa. Hejoins us now. Thank you and welcome to the programme. What is your take on what we are witnessing in niger right now . Right now . Good morning. I think what right now . Good morning. I think what we right now . Good morning. I think what we are right now . Good morning. I l think what we are witnessing right now . Good morning. I. Think what we are witnessing is likely the consolidation of any Military Regime. Enough time has passed now that we have a general sense of who was in charge or who would like to be in charge and while we have seen a fair bit of International Response at this point,
Butjust one single episode exposed how he operated inside the ira while on the states books. This is a story of a spy who got away with murder. West belfast in the 1980s. An irish republican enclave where many were subject to the iras rules. Such warnings to so called touts were frequently borne out. Archive charlie mcilmurray s body was found in this van on sunday. Charlie mcilmurray, a west belfast taxi driver, suspected of being a tout slang for an informer was shot dead in 1987. I think that mr mcilmurray, like anyone else living in west belfast, knows that the consequence for informing is death. I mean, if republican activists, who know what the repercussions are for going over to the other side, in fact go over to the other side, then they more than anyone else are totally and absolutely aware of what the penalty for doing that is. Death . Death, certainly. Freddie scappaticci was under orders to enforce the iras rules for so called traitors. Scappaticci was once secretly recorde
Chris is following the story for us. Theres a lot of pressure on the coup leaders in niger. This is as a result of the coup, the Political Development in that country and also its similar to the eus position. Its similar to the eus position. The eu has suspended aid, both financial and military to these states. The Secretary Of State earlier threatened that the country risks millions of dollars in aid is being suspended because of the coup and there has been action from the African Union which has given the military in niger 50 days maximum to return to the barracks and restore democracy. Theyve also asked for the release of the current president who we know it is still being held by the military. We who we know it is still being held by the military who we know it is still being held by the military. We go live now to can hudson by the military. We go live now to can hudson who by the military. We go live now to can hudson who is by the military. We go live now to can hudson who is an
But we are also very focused on working together with partners to try to help the haitians restore security, restore stability. That really is the necessary foundation. The developments happen as a Christian Aid Group says an american nurse and her child have been kidnapped in the country. It happened on thursday near the capital, Port Au Prince, after the us advised all its citizens to leave the country because of the worsening Security Situation. Gangs control large parts of haitis capital Port Au Prince and kidnappings for ransom are common. Earlier, i spoke about the situation in haiti with harold isaac, a journalist based near Port Au Prince. Kenya says that it is prepared to send a Multinational Force to haiti what more do we know about that and how it might work . Very little at this stage. I mean, for many people here, it came as a bit of a surprise, especially after over nine months of waiting for a word or an actual commitment with regards to Foreign Police or Military Person
that s the area of low pressure that brought the showers on saturday. then behind me, this shield of cloud rolling in from the atlantic already bringing some rain into the south west of england through the first part of sunday morning. further north and east, sunny spells, scattered heavy showers. through the day, our band of rain pushes northwards and eastwards, getting into parts of northern ireland, wales, the midlands, down into the south east of england by sunday afternoon. and with that, quite afternoon. and with that, quite a strong wind at times as well. it will also turn really quite misty and murky for some coasts and hills in the west. temperature wise, i think the highest values will be in eastern england, up to around 23 degrees. so, for the cricket at the oval, i think there is the increasing chance of rain as we go through the day. some disruption to the day, certainly through the latter part of the afternoon, is quite likely. as we head through sunday evening, our ban