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☆ Junta Official in Niger Claims Captive President Will Not Be Harmed
  + stars: | 2023-08-18 | by ( Elian Peltier | More About Elian Peltier | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: 1 min
The top civilian official of the junta that seized power in the West African nation of Niger said in an interview on Friday that coup leaders had no intention of harming the deposed president or collaborating with the Kremlin-backed Wagner paramilitary group. The junta has been holding Niger’s president, Mohamed Bazoum, captive in his home since July 26, denying him water and electricity, and threatening to kill him if a group of West African countries were to follow through on a proposal to reverse the coup militarily. In an interview with The New York Times, Ali Lamine Zeine, who was named prime minister by the junta earlier this month, said of Mr. Bazoum, “Nothing will happen to him, because we don’t have a tradition of violence in Niger.” The pledge was at odds with the country’s history — a president was assassinated by soldiers in 1999.
Persons: Wagner, Mohamed Bazoum, Ali Lamine Zeine, Bazoum, — Organizations: Kremlin, The New York Times Locations: West African, Niger, West
☆ As West African Leaders Meet on Niger Crisis, Few Options Are on the Table
  + stars: | 2023-08-10 | by ( Elian Peltier | More About Elian Peltier | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
West African leaders gathered on Thursday for a critical summit to address the crisis in Niger, where the mutinous soldiers who seized power more than two weeks ago have shunned mediation efforts and ignored an ultimatum to relinquish power. Hopes for an end to the stalemate were already dim before the junta on Thursday replaced the cabinet of the ousted president, Mohamed Bazoum, with a new government made up of 21 officials led by Ali Lamine Zeine, an economist and former finance minister. The two highest-ranking officials after Mr. Zeine are both generals and coup leaders. As the military junta strengthened its grip on power, envoys from the Economic Community of West African States, the 15-nation regional bloc known as ECOWAS that had threatened military intervention if Mr. Bazoum was not reinstated, convened in Nigeria, but their options appeared to be limited. The deadline to return Mr. Bazoum to power passed on Sunday, with few consequences so far, and the prospect of a military intervention to remove the new government appeared unlikely, according to most observers.
Persons: Mohamed Bazoum, Ali Lamine Zeine, Zeine, Bazoum Organizations: Economic, West Locations: Niger, West African States, Nigeria
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