Rhissa Ag Boula prominent Nigérien Tuareg and former minister under ousted President Mohamed Bazoum who recently launched the Conseil de la Résistance pour la République (CRR) to fight the junta in Niamey has announced the despatch of more than 100 fighters to help defend the Azawad cause in Mali...

Nguema and his allies are trying to contrast perceptions of their takeover from that of the Nigérien putschists who are detaining President Mohamed Bazoum in harsh conditions and have cracked down on civil liberties...

Orano signed a deal in May with the government of President Mohamed Bazoum which CEO Nicolas Maes declared himself 'particularly pleased' with covering continuation of Arlit mitigating the social impacts of the closure of the Cominak mine in 2021 and evaluating options for developing the large Imouraren deposit...

They were also allowed to visit the detained President Mohamed Bazoum...

Declaring themselves opposed to the use of military force against the junta senior Togolese officials told the junta emissaries they supported the removal of President Mohamed Bazoum the sources added...

In another show of insouciance the Niamey junta named a new team of ministers a few hours before West African leaders met in Abuja on 10 August to discuss how to reinstate President Mohamed Bazoum and restore constitutional rule...

On 7 August the United States Acting Deputy Secretary of State Victoria Nuland had managed to meet Gen Moussa Salaou Barmou in Niamey but was refused access to President Mohamed Bazoum who is detained in spartan conditions...

We hear that senior officials had been pursuing further inquiries into individuals linked to that arms procurement scandal at the time of the overthrow of President Mohamed Bazoum on 26 July...

He commissioned the Inspector-General of the armed forces and the national police – notably not the public prosecutor – to carry out the audit which landed on his and the President's desks in February 2020 just as PNDS officials were devising the election strategy for Issoufou's designated successor Mohamed Bazoum his right-hand man for the previous 10 years...

The political class in Niamey and sundry intelligence sources had been speculating about the possibility of President Mohamed Bazoum's overthrow for months...

NIAMEY JUNTA TESTS REGIONAL RESOLVE ON COUPS West African leaders' hard-line stance towards General Abdourahamane Tiani's military junta in Niamey which is holding President Mohamed Bazoum and his family prisoner in the presidential residence risks serious confrontation with the putschists...