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Algeria sent its Foreign Minister, Ahmed Attaf, on a tour of Nigeria, Benin, and Ghana, to help find a way out of the Niger crisis. Minister Ahmed Attaf, was mandated by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. He began his working visits to Nigeria, Benin, and Ghana.
Algeria sent its Foreign Minister, Ahmed Attaf, on a tour of Nigeria, Benin, and Ghana, to help find a way out of the Niger crisis. Minister Ahmed Attaf, was mandated by President Abdelmadjid Tebboune. He began his working visits to Nigeria, Benin, and Ghana.
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Ahmed will hold consultations on the crisis in Niger and ways of dealing with it with his counterparts, which are members of ECOWAS. The aim is to contribute to a political solution that will spare this country and the entire region the repercussions of a possible escalation of the situation.
Algerian diplomacy has a long history of mediating or attempting to resolve numerous international conflicts. President Tebboune categorically rejected any external military intervention in Niger.
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Algeria shares almost 1,000 km of border with Niger. As Africa’s largest nation, Algeria borders two countries in the throes of a profound crisis: Mali and Libya, and refuses to open a third front on its borders.
In the meantime, the Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) has decided “to suspend the participation of Niger in all activities of the AU and its organs and institutions until the effective restoration of constitutional order in the country. Tebboune had stressed, estimating that in the event of a military operation, the whole Sahel would go up in flames. Mali and Burkina Faso, which like Niger face jihadist violence. In the meantime, Niger’s deposed President Mohamed Bazoum, overthrown by a coup d’état on July 26 and held prisoner ever since, is determined to fight to safeguard democracy, according to his daughter in an open letter published in the French daily Le Figaro.
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In the letter, Zazia Bazoum Mohamed, who lives in Paris, called for the release of her father, held captive in the presidential palace, and the restoration of constitutional order in Niger. She recalled that her father was democratically elected, that he was the people’s choice, and believed that he had made a positive mark, both nationally and internationally. He has made the fight against corruption and bad governance his main battleground, she continued, underlining the progress made on the economic front.
