West Africa’s main regional bloc ECOWAS is expected to push for more talks with the junta
Bazoum’s political party has said his family has no access to running water, fresh food or doctors, and Bazoum told Human Rights Watch that his son needed to see a doctor because of a serious heart condition.
“After this visit the doctor raised no concerns about the state of health of the ousted president and members of his family,” Abdramane said. The bloc’s parliament on Saturday said it wanted to send a committee to meet the junta in Niamey, but the proposed timing of that mission is not clear. U.S., French, German and Italian troops are stationed in Niger, in a region where local affiliates of al Qaeda and Islamic State have killed thousands and displaced millions.
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