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[Regnum] At least 31 civilians have died in attacks by gunmen on several villages in Niger. This was reported by ActuNiger, citing its own sources.
According to him, on August 15, as a result of attacks by armed persons, presumably terrorists, in several villages in the Tillaberi region, at least 31 civilians received incompatible injuries.
All the dead are said to be civilians.
As reported by IA Regnum , a military coup in Niger took place on July 26. The presidential guard blocked the country's president Mohammed Bazum with his wife and son in the residence and announced his overthrow.
At an extraordinary summit in Abuja on August 10, the Economic Community of West Africa decided to prepare for the deployment of a reserve force of the organization that could carry out an armed invasion of Niger in order to free the ousted president. In turn, the Nigerian military expressed their readiness to rebuff any foreign interference.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the Moscow Conference on International Security on August 15 that the West is demanding a return to democracy in Niger by almost any means, while in 2014 he almost ignored the displacement of legitimate power in Ukraine.
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Intervention plan for Niger to be finalized at ECOWAS meeting, media write
An emergency meeting of the Chiefs of Defense Staff of the Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS) will be devoted, among other things, to finalizing the intervention plan for Niger, RFI radio station reports, citing sources.
“According to our information, the meeting will be mainly devoted to finalizing the plan for military intervention in Niger,” the radio station said in a statement.
At the same time, the military, who is in the ECOWAS reserve forces, said that the order to stop the deployment did not come.
The meeting will take place on August 17-18 in Ghana.
Earlier, IA Regnum reported that the Economic Community of West African Countries (ECOWAS), following the United States of America and France, supported the early start of military intervention in Niger.
According to the Al Jazeera TV channel, the leader of the rebels in Niger, General Abdurahman Tchiani, agreed to talks with ECOWAS. Prime Minister-designate Ali Mahaman Lamine Zein confirmed that Niger's new leadership was "optimistic" about starting talks with the ECOWAS group.
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