Worshippers went to the grand mosque in Niamey, hoping their prayers for peace would be answered after West Africa's regional bloc said it had devised a plan to possibly reinstate Niger’s ousted president Mohamed Bazoum by force
The United States government has paused certain foreign assistance programs that benefit the government of Niger but will continue giving humanitarian and food assistance, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday.
"All the elements that will go into any eventual intervention have been worked out here, including the resources needed, the how and when we are going deploy the force," he said at the close of a three-day meeting in Nigeria's capital Abuja.risks further conflict in one of the poorest regions of the world where groups linked to Islamic State and al Qaeda thrive on chaos.
"We always advocate dialogue between Nigeriens and we will never intervene by military means," Chad's defence minister, General Daoud Yaya Brahim, told national television on Friday.
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