Citing the threat of Foreign Military intervention. They claim to have information a foreign power is preparing to attack. It comes after the expiry of a sunday deadline from west African Regional bloc ecowas, which demanded the coup be reversed. The group now plans to hold an Emergency Summit on thursday. Bbc correspondent chris ewokor is following the story from the neighbouring nigeria. It is one day after the expiration of the alternation given to the coup leaders by ecowas to reinstate president mohamed bazoum. The leaders are due to meet later this week to agree on the demands by ecowas mac defence chiefs and other matters which will help them resolve this diplomatically. Believers want to make very clear that coup or military takeover of the government in the region will no longer be acceptable. Meanwhile, here in North Western nigeria the board remains closed against niger. Long lines of vehicles, lorries, carrying loads covered with tombola, have been stranded with their drive
Hello. First to niger, where, in the last hour, a deadline for the militaryjunta to step down has passed. The leaders of nigers coup have hours to restore the ousted president , or face the possibility of military action. Thousands of people gathered in nigers capital to support the militaryjunta as that deadline expired. Despite International Condemnation of the soldiers actions, thousands of nigeriens continue to show support for the army hoping it can offer the country stability. 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 nigers elected president. Niger s Prime Minister was in paris on saturday meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the countrys embassy. He has dismissed pro coup protests taking place in his country. Marie roger biloa is a west Af
Christian frasers in london. The us Secretary Of State, Rex Tillerson, and the Homeland Security secretary, john kelly, have begun a day of meetings with their mexican counterparts. Their mission is to improve the badly damaged relations between the two nations. The trip comes after repeated public criticism of mexico by President Trump and a controversial plan that could mean the deportation of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants to mexico, regardless of where they came from. This is what the president said about the visit this morning. That is going to be a tough trip because we have to be treated fairly by mexico, that is going to be a tough trip. But he is over there with general kellie who has been unbelievable at the border, you see what is happening at the border, for the first time, we are getting gang members and drug lords out, really bad dudes out of this country. And ata bad dudes out of this country. And at a rate that nobody has ever seen before. And they are
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i asked him earlier, why does he think donald trump leads in race for republican nomination? everyone who understands the anthropology of today s republican party has understood for a year that no matter what nikki haley or ron desantis or vivek ramaswamy or chris christie did, they still had to overcome the fact that trump has a death grip on the republican party he will not relinquish, no matter how much he is in trouble legally or politically. that death grip is stronger than ever, frankly. it s hard to see how the american political media is going to come out of monday s probable results in iowa where trump will likely win over nikki haley and romp across the early contests.