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Niger PM In Chad As US, Russia Urge Diplomatic Option In Crisis

Bazoum's ousting unleashed a shock wave around West Africa, where Mali and Burkina Faso have also suffered military


Niger’s military-appointed prime minister made an unannounced visit to neighbouring Chad on Tuesday as West African states set talks for mulling possible military intervention to reverse his country’s coup and the United States and Russia urged a diplomatic solution to the crisis.

Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine, a civilian appointed by the military rulers who ousted Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26, arrived in Chad for a “working visit,” the Chadian government said on Facebook.

In a statement issued after meeting Chadian President Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, Zeine said he had brought a message of “good neighbourliness and good fraternity” from the head of Niger’s regime.

“We are in a process of transition, we discussed the ins and outs and reiterated our availability to remain open and talk with all parties, but insist on our country’s independence,” he said.

Deby, a key player in the unstable Sahel, had flown to the Nigerien capital Niamey four days after the coup.


Photos later showed him pictured next to the detained Bazoum and, separately, with one of the regime’s leaders, General Salifou Mody.

– Diplomacy call –
Zeine’s unannounced visit came hours after sources in the region said military chiefs from the regional bloc ECOWAS would meet in Ghana on Thursday and Friday to discuss possible intervention in Niger.

The meeting — originally scheduled for last Saturday but then postponed — flows from an ECOWAS summit last week which approved deployment of a “standby force to restore constitutional order” in Niger.

Analysts say military intervention would be operationally risky and politically hazardous, given divisions within ECOWAS ranks and fears of worsening the Sahel’s chronic instability.


But the option of force also came with the bloc’s insistence that it preferred a diplomatic outcome — a scenario that Washington strongly backed on Tuesday.

“I believe that there continues to be space for diplomacy in achieving that result,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters.

“The pressure that’s been exerted by many countries including through ECOWAS on the military leaders responsible for disrupting the constitutional order in Niger is mounting.

“I think they have to take that into , as well as the fact that their actions have isolated them from the region and the world.”


Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a “peaceful political and diplomatic” resolution to the crisis in a phone call with Mali’s junta leader, Assimi Goita, the Kremlin said on Tuesday.

Bazoum’s election in 2021 was a landmark in Niger’s history, ushering in the country’s first peaceful transfer of power since independence from in 1960.

His ousting unleashed a shock wave around West Africa, where Mali and Burkina Faso — likewise battered by a jihadist insurgency — have also suffered military takeovers.

ECOWAS — the Economic Community of West African States — applied a tough roster of trade and financial sanctions, while , and the United States suspended their aid programmes.

The regional bloc gave the new regime a one-week ultimatum on July 30 to restore Bazoum or face the potential use of force, but the deadline expired without action.

Niger’s military regime has sent mixed signals since the crisis erupted.

At the weekend, the coup leaders said they were open to a diplomatic push after their chief, General Abdourahamane Tiani, met with Nigerian religious mediators.

Those talks came after the ECOWAS military meeting in Ghana was postponed for “technical reasons”.

But on Sunday night, Niger’s rulers declared they had gathered sufficient evidence to prosecute Bazoum for “high treason and undermining internal and external security”.

The legal threat was angrily condemned by ECOWAS, which lashed it as a contradiction of the regime’s “reported willingness” to explore peaceful means. Washington said it was “incredibly dismayed”.

The row overshadowed talks under African Union (AU) auspices that began on Monday in Addis Ababa, bringing together representatives from the regime and ECOWAS.

– Poor and unstable –
A landlocked nation in the heart of the arid Sahel, Niger is one of the world’s poorest and most turbulent countries.

Bazoum, 63, survived two attempted coups before being ousted, in the fifth putsch in the country’s history.

His ousting deals a huge blow to French and US strategy in the Sahel.

refocused its anti-jihadist operations on Niger after withdrawing from Mali and Burkina Faso last year following a bust-up with their juntas.

International concern is mounting for the state of Bazoum, his wife and son, who have been held at the president’s official residence since the coup.

https://www.channelstv.com/2023/08/16/niger-pm-in-chad-as-us-russia-urge-diplomatic-option-in-crisis/

time for fresh alignment & consolidation of power by the new regime.

They will not allow their country to become Libya 2.0
Ebola & EC0WAS shld attack corruption & poverty in West Africa. It is a big shame that after two decades since the return of democracy nigeria does not have a working refinery.

Please fight this war ....

Igboland wanna check something

lol

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Interesting times ahead

They're open to discussions but are equally very committed to their "independence".

Key word!

Putting calls for peaceful resolutions while destroying Ukraine with guns.

If them nor arrest that idiot na dem Bleep up. Lock am up and get intelligent reports from him.

OyeofIkoTuN:
Please fight this war ....

Igboland wanna check something

Leave igbos out of your evil and imposter request. Igbos do not subscribe to war. Tell those you are representing that you failed.

Hmmm

WW3 closer than ever.

If the people of Niger are Ok with the military they should leave them alone, for me the military government was better than the nonsense going on in Nigeria today that they call democracy....

Tinubu has the capacity to use his family to prosecute the war . I love Russia

United States should keep their dirty claws out of this matter. We have queued behind Russia because we are better off there.

Interesting times indeed.

Do you see how our government rushed into this crisis unprepared, putting all its aces on the table, while leaving it no room for diplomatic manoeuvres? The only emissaries granted hearing by the Junta go there on their own accord, but anything through the official channel is ignored.

Now compare that with the US who are just tenants that don't want to be kicked out of Niger are the ones now forming champions of diplomacy.

Our new government's foreign policy has been measured, weighed and found wanting on the African and international stage.

By the way has the US SD refered to the Niger "situation" as a coup yet?

Lama70:
United States should keep their dirty claws out of this matter. We have queued behind Russia because we are better off there.

Blimey, you lot are always moaning about the US and how they're mes your continent. You think they're behind every bad thing that happens, from wars to famines to diseases. You're always pointing the finger at them and saying they're the root of all evil. But if they kept their noses out of your business, you'd probably accuse them of having some sinister agenda or not caring about your plight. You can't have it both ways, mate.

Instead of queuing behind other countries and begging for crumbs, why don't you try to stand on your own two feet and make something of yourselves? Why don't you let other countries queue behind you for a change and show them what you're made of? And while you're at it, why don't you sort out your own problems and deal with the corruption and greediness that's rife among your leaders? Stop crying about the US all the time and take some responsibility for your own actions. Maybe then you'll see some positive changes in your continent.

It's okay. Good leaders will always prefer dialogue and diplomacy to force. I wonder if Tinubu actually took the GS course named PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTIONS during his days in the university.

Osariemen12:
It's okay. Good leaders will always prefer dialogue and diplomacy to force. I wonder if Tinubu actually took the GS course named PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTIONS during his days in the university.

Tinubu that attended Chicago state university was a female students

Tinubu is really in a deep blue sea with this Niger coup. US hold the weyrey for prick, while other silent countries like Russia etc just fold hand the watch the weyrey next action.

The people of Niger has spoken, don't cry more than the bereaved, after all you have an ongoing war in your country to deal with. Fight your battles first, charity begins at home weyrey.

iampeterben:
If them nor arrest that idiot na dem Bleep up. Lock am up and get intelligent reports from him.

You lack leadership and conflict resolution skills!!

You have alot to learn!

If dem like, make them bomb themselves.

Morbeta11:


https://www.channelstv.com/2023/08/16/niger-pm-in-chad-as-us-russia-urge-diplomatic-option-in-crisis/

Dialogue urged by the superpowers.
Tinubu's chances of declaring Emergency Rule in Nigeria ruled out. Good news.

Stevenson20:
Tinubu is really in a deep blue sea with this Niger coup. US hold the weyrey for prick, while other silent countries like Russia etc just fold hand the watch the weyrey next action.

The people of Niger has spoken, don't cry more than the bereaved, after all you have an ongoing war in your country to deal with. Fight your battles first, charity begins at home weyrey.

na only hate you go just day hate the man there's nothing you can do 😁😁

Stevenson20:
Tinubu is really in a deep blue sea with this Niger coup. US hold the weyrey for prick, while other silent countries like Russia etc just fold hand the watch the weyrey next action.

The people of Niger has spoken, don't cry more than the bereaved, after all you have an ongoing war in your country to deal with. Fight your battles first, charity begins at home weyrey.

For his own political benefits of emergency rule in Nigeria, Tinubu was the man clandestinely instigating force to dislodge the military junta in Niger. Tinubu knew that such war must spill over to Nigeria 🇳🇬. The Superpowers understand that war is dangerous and war is used only when it's absolutely necessary.
The coupists of Niger 🇳🇪 Republic are from the country. They are not invaders from another country. So why would Tinubu orchestrate war of ECOWAS against Niger 🇳🇪 Republic coupists, if not for cementing himself in power through emergency rule laws?

Immediately Russian President spoke to Mali President and called for diplomatic solutions America quickly issued their own statement saying the same thing which is calling American betrayal.
The shooting down of our military transport helicopter by bandits in Niger State has led to calls for Tinubu to focus more on insecurity in his country than military action in Niger

Larryndelaw:
Putting calls for peaceful resolutions while destroying Ukraine with guns.

Peace is not the absence of war.

OyeofIkoTuN:
Please fight this war ....

Igboland wanna check something

Igbo land is already at war. Prime Minister Simon Ekpa and his Boys are unleashing terror in that Region.