the west african regional bloc, ecowas, gave the coup leaders a week to reinstate the ousted president, mohamed bazoum, and threatened military intervention if its demands were not met. there ve been reports of sporadic shows of support for the junta on the streets of the capital niamey but the city is said to be calm. some neighbouring countries mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. and algeria which borders niger to the north has said it is categorically against armed intervention. france,a former colonial power, says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore niger s elected president. niger s prime minister was in paris on saturday ? meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the country s embassy. he has dismissed pro coup protests taking place in his country.
there has not been widespread condemnation of the key within niger. this was a demonstration backing the coup leaders and against sanctions imposed by ecowas. neighbouring countries mali, burkina faso and guinea have also leant their support to the coup leaders. and algeria, which borders niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. france, though, says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore niger s elected president. france is a former colonial power in niger. niger 5 prime minister was in paris on saturday meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the niger embassy. he has dismissed pro coup protests taking place in his country. our correspondent in lagos in neighbouring nigeria, explained why many residents support the coup.
some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. and algeria which borders niger to the north has said it is categorically against armed intervention. france says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore niger s elected president. niger s prime minister was in paris on saturday ? meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the country s embassy. he has dismissed pro coup protests taking place in niger. our correspondent in lagos in neighbouring nigeria, explained why many residents support the coup.
we begin in niger, where the breaking news in the last half an hour is the military leaders who staged a coup say they have closed the country s airspace over what they called the threat of intervention against them. the announcement came as a deadline expired for them to restore the ousted president or face the possible action from the west african regional grouping known as ecowas. earlier thousands of people gathered in niger s capital to support the militaryjunta, despite international condemnation of the soldiers actions. some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. and algeria, which borders niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. france says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore niger s elected president.
or face the possibility of military action. thousands of people gathered in the country s capital to support the militaryjunta as that deadline expired. some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. and algeria, which borders niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. france says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore niger s elected president. niger s prime minister was in paris on saturday 7 meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the country s embassy. our reporter in lagos, in neighbouring nigeria, gave us this update. we are yet to hear from ecowas on what the decision would be concerning niger. the ultimatum has elapsed this sunday evening and we are yet to hear from ecowas.