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Nigeria is calling for the release of ousted Niger president Mohamed Bazoum and for the military junta to allow him to leave for a third country. Nigeria is currently chair of the regional group Economic Community of West African States or ECOWAS which has imposed sanctions on Niger following the July coup that ousted Bazoum.
Nigeria is calling for the release of ousted Niger president Mohamed Bazoum and for the military junta to allow him to leave for a third country. Nigeria is currently chair of the regional group Economic Community of West African States or ECOWAS which has imposed sanctions on Niger following the July coup that ousted Bazoum. ECOWAS had been demanding Bazoum’s immediate return to the presidency, but the military junta has kept him in detention and says it may need up to three years for a return to civilian rule.
Nigeria asking them to release President Bazoum so that he will be allowed to leave Niger, stated Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar. He said ECOWAS was still open to talks with Niger’s junta. ECOWAS leaders will meet in Nigeria’s capital Abuja on December 10 to discuss the region, where since 2020 coups have put military juntas in power in Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea, and Niger.
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Last month, a failed coup attempt left 21 dead in Sierra Leone, another member of ECOWAS, according to senior officials in the country. ECOWAS member Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said Saturday violence this week involving members of his country’s National Guard was an “attempted coup.”
