Coup d’état | The coup leaders in Niger reopen the border with Algeria, Burkina Faso, Libya, Mali and Chad

2023-08-02 10:22:32

The coup junta that led the coup in Niger announced the reopening of the land and air borders with Algeria, Burkina Faso, Libya, Mali y Chad since Tuesday night, but did not rule on the rest of the countries.

The decision was announced on public television by Colonel Major Amadou Abdaramanespokesman for the military junta organized in the National Council for the Safeguarding of the People (CNSP), which read out a decree signed by the president of the CNSP, General Abdourahamane Tiani.

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He The closure of the land and air borders of the African country was decided last Wednesday by the coup leaders who also announced the dismissal of the president, Mohamed Bazoum, and the suspension of the Constitution.

In another communiqué, the coup junta appoints four brigadier generals, a lieutenant general, a major colonel, a colonel and a police controller general as governors of the different regions of the country.

He also published several decrees signed in recent days, one of them authorizing the general secretaries of the ministries (in charge of the departments in the absence of the ministers, who were deposed) to make expenses “waiting for the establishment of the new transitional government”.

Niger after the coup became the fourth West African country led by a military junta, after Mali, Guinea-Conakry and Burkina Faso, where coups have also taken place between 2020 and 2022.

The African country faces financial sanctions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) which gave the coup leaders a one-week ultimatum to restore constitutional order without ruling out the possibility of military intervention.

A neighboring countries Burkina Faso and Mali reacted harshly to these sanctions who warned last Monday that any military intervention against Niger is equivalent to a declaration of war against them.