Europe Rejects Coup Leaders, Cuts Aid DeutscheWelle: Niger
It also suspended all security cooperation with the country with immediate effect.
Bazoum, who was elected in 2021 in Niger's first peaceful transfer of power since its independence from France in 1960, is currently held by members of his presidential guard at the presidential palace.
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