NIAMEY - The second-ranking US diplomat met Niger's military leaders on Monday to press to reverse a coup but reported no headway a day after an ultimatum from the West African bloc ECOWAS was ignored
NIAMEY - The second-ranking US diplomat met Niger's military leaders on Monday to press to reverse a coup but reported no headway a day after an ultimatum from the West African bloc ECOWAS was ignored.
The 15-nation bloc is reconvening for its own diplomatic push on the crisis with a summit Thursday in Nigerian capital Abuja. She said she offered the coup leaders"a number of options" to exit the crisis and restore the relationship with the United States, which like other Western nations has suspended aid."I would not say that we were in any way taken up on that offer," she said.
Nuland said she warned Niger against following neighbouring Mali in bringing in Russia's Wagner mercenaries. They said there had been a"pre-deployment in preparation for intervention" made by two Central African countries, without naming them, and warned:"Any state involved will be considered co-belligerent."
"The junta have asked the ECOWAS delegation to return" and its members"will be in Niamey probably today or tomorrow", Mahamadou said.
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