The Chadian and Nigerien military are close but relations were dented when Nigerian President Bola Tinubu succeeded in persuading Kaka to ask the junta in Niamey to release President Mohamed Bazoum from his detention since 26 July...

Plans to rename the CFA franc the next stage of regional currency reform were derailed at the last minute by the July 2023 military coup that deposed Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum Africa Confidential has learned...

The US downgraded its military operations in Niger since Gen Tiani and a clutch of senior officers overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum last July (AC Vol 64 No 17 Niamey's junta thumbs its nose)...

Its border with Nigeria had been shut since the coup that ousted President Mohamed Bazoum...

But ending sanctions on Niger did not persuade its junta to release ousted President Mohamed Bazoum under strictly enforced house arrest since the coup last July...

Although he repeated the bloc's demand for the release of President Mohamed Bazoum and his wife he did not say this was a condition for scrapping sanctions...

Niger had been in serious talks with Ecowas about a compromise 15-18-month transition to civilian rule although it has yet to agree terms for the release of the deposed President Mohamed Bazoum from confinement...

It should improve the cross-border security collaboration that decayed after Goïta and Traoré's coups put cooperation with now deposed Nigérien President Mohamed Bazoum into the deep-freeze...

This partly explains popular support for military coups in the Sahel which removed pro-western rulers such as Niger's President Mohamed Bazoum...