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
To defend themselves, 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. Meanwhile, the United States is suspending more than 100 million in aid to niger. But officials insist theres still time to solve the crisis. I spoke to former state Department Official Bisa Williams earlier to get insights into the situation. We are now learning more about the Acting Deputy Secretary of states unsuccessful attempts to negotiate some kind of settlement to see a return to power of president Mohamed Bazoum. Why do you think she wasnt able to make any progress there . Im not sure i would characterise that as unsuccessful completely. My understanding was that the Acting Deputy Secretary left the door open for continued discussions and that basically
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