By Starrys Obazei | July 28, 2023.
starrys@ddnewsonline.com..
France does not recognise the leaders of the putsch who claim to have seized power in Niger and considers detained President Mohamed Bazoum the country’s sole leader, the French foreign ministry said Friday, AFP reports.
Bazoum, “democratically elected by the people of Niger, is the only president of the Republic of Niger”, it said in a statement. “France does not recognise the authorities resulting from the putsch led by General (Abdourahamane) Tchiani.”
It added that France “reaffirmed in the strongest terms the clear demands of the international community calling for the immediate restoration of constitutional order and democratically-elected civilian government in Niger.”
Tchiani, head of the Presidential Guard since 2011, earlier read a statement on national TV as the “president of the National Council for the Safeguard of the Homeland” on the third day since Bazoum was detained.
French President Emmanuel Macron, who had sought to make Bazoum a close ally in the jihadist-hit Sahel region, had earlier described the coup as “completely illegitimate and profoundly dangerous, for Nigeriens, for Niger and for the whole region.”
Bazoum and his family have been confined since Wednesday to their residence at the presidential palace located within the Guard’s military camp.
He is said to be in good health and has been able to talk by telephone to other heads of state including Macron.
French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna had earlier held out hope for Bazoum’s position saying: “If you hear me talking about an attempted coup, it’s 77because we don’t consider things final.”
cefdinir 300 mg canada – cleocin cheap
buy accutane 10mg online – purchase isotretinoin pills deltasone 10mg drug
buy prednisone 10mg generic – buy generic permethrin online buy permethrin online
acticin brand – benzoyl peroxide generic retin cream over the counter
buy generic betamethasone 20 gm – where can i buy benoquin purchase monobenzone cream
flagyl uk – cheap cenforce 100mg oral cenforce
augmentin us – synthroid 75mcg pills buy synthroid tablets
cleocin cost – indocin 75mg oral order indocin 50mg online cheap
hyzaar ca – buy losartan generic buy cephalexin
eurax oral – buy crotamiton for sale buy aczone pills
buy modafinil 200mg online cheap – buy modafinil 200mg online buy meloset 3 mg sale
order bupropion 150 mg generic – buy orlistat 120mg generic buy shuddha guggulu online cheap
order xeloda 500mg sale – order xeloda without prescription danazol for sale
purchase progesterone online cheap – ponstel tablets buy clomiphene tablets
cheap alendronate – buy pilex pills for sale buy medroxyprogesterone sale
buy cheap norethindrone – lumigan price purchase yasmin