Niger Situation News Today

Niger military officers deposed President Mohamed Bazoum on July 26 and have defied calls from the United Nations, ECOWAS and Western powers to reinstate him.

The United States orders partial embassy evacuation in Niger after recent coup. Updated travel advisory issued for US citizens.

Potentially damaged before being in isis hands for a period of time. when we spoke to them earlier on, they were obviously delighted they got ahold of it. its a key playing card for them and they werent going to give it back because they had lost people in the fight against isis. as we saw ourselves, they are literally meters away from their advances against isis. meters away from the syrian regime and russian forces, too. in fact, those are american-backed forces so they have face-to-face meeti...

The pentagon is very careful about the condition of the remains. its a very somber situation. you have to show respect. i suspect there was a good reason for that decision by the pentagon. but this widow, what a tragedy, whats happened to her. she should get a full explanation of what happened, and the president should call her and say, i meant no disrespect. here we have cases where general kelly, a good, decent man, you could see the pain in his face having lost a son. we shouldnt get into the...

Appear before the senate committee. my next guest, bill richardson, was the u.s. ambassador to the united nations during the clinton administration and then served as the democratic governor of new mexico. governor, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you very much, wolf. >> the 16-year-old authorization for the use of military force is used to justify military operations in numerous countries, including niger. is it time now to review that authorization and get the house and the senate...

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Infringement on the presidents power. these are usually granted. i was on the house intelligence committee for many years. but look, we have a situation in niger where so many people dont know, was this a military mission, was there any covert action involved? i suspect there might have been. this is why there wasnt full disclosure to the armed services committee, at least. but at least the gang of eight, the highest congressional leaders, should have known. this is war in africa. this is a nati...

Forensic reason. given all of that, i still find it very unusual that she wasnt allowed to see the body and to say her final goodbyes. >> the military, like those who were there, the escort officers, they may have decided they wanted to protect her from seeing the body of her husband, that it would have been too awful for her to see that. as a result, they recommended to her, you better not take a look? >> that is possible. that is possible. we dont know right now. that part has not been release...