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SaltWire's Atlantic regional weather forecast for October 20, 2023 | SaltWireDAKAR - Niger's ousted President Mohamed Bazoum is being held in a secret location by the junta that seized power in the West African state, lawyers representing him said on Friday, denying accusations that the president had tried to escape.
The junta said late on Thursday that Bazoum and his family, with the help of accomplices in the security forces, had planned to drive a vehicle to the outskirts of the capital Niamey and catch a helicopter ride to neighbouring Nigeria.His lawyers rejected it as nothing but a concoction, however. The lawyers said in the statement that Bazoum and his family had no access to lawyers or the outside world.
Niger's coup was one of five that have swept West Africa's central Sahel region in three years, leaving a vast band of arid terrain south of the Sahara Desert under the control of military rulers.
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