2023-08-16 17:21:25
By Stanislas Poyet
Posted 53 minutes ago, Updated 53 minutes ago
“Here at the university, we mobilized massively to support the military. It is a first step for more democracy”, wants to believe Almoustafa, secretary general of the student union of Abdou-Moumouni University in Niamey. STANISLAS POYET
REPORT – If the coup was not the result of a popular movement, the soldiers were able to benefit from the rejection of the old regime in the capital to consolidate their power.
Niamey
The column of black smoke was visible throughout the city. Thursday, July 27, on the sidelines of the first rally in support of the military coup the day before, hundreds of demonstrators directed their anger against the headquarters of the PNDS, the Nigerien Party for Democracy and Socialism, until then in power. All around the building, cars were set on fire, windows smashed and some rooms in the building ransacked. “All the problems of Niger come from thereexplains Bachir, a young student wrapped in a Nigerian flag. We no longer want this system rotten to the core, we no longer want these corrupt leaders who steal money from Nigeriens”. In Niamey, the population has generally lined up behind the military, and while not everyone marched in the streets during the demonstrations organized to shout their hostility to the old regime, many confessed their satisfaction at seeing power change hands.
However, the putsch is not…
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