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France says it has no plans to withdraw around 1,000 of its soldiers based in niger where they are part of an International Effort to fight islamist militants. Aichatou kane is the nigerian ambassador to paris and the uk she has been in contact with president bazoum in niger and just before we came on air she told me how he is doing. The president of niger. Effectively, we have a daily call and is still a serious threat. But he is well and his morale is high as well as his familys morale. Does h...

Earlier i spoke to the former us ambassador to chad, mark boulware, who gave me his assessment of this fast moving situation. well, it is a tense and dangerous situation. and as time goes on, of course, the coup leaders, the junta consolidates its power. in the beginning, it was just the presidential guard who took this action and the military was apparently not completely on board with it. but over time, they decided to join in and and reinforce the junta. so now the military seems to be united...