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Niger is the last bastion of human rights in the Sahel, writes the ousted president in the Washington Post – and calls for help for his country. The democratically elected Bazoum was arrested last week in Niger by officers of the presidential guard and declared disempowered. The coup plotters suspended the constitution and dissolved all constitutional institutions. The military junta has also announced the termination of the mandates of Nigerien ambassadors in four countries. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) had ordered an economic blockade against Niger.

After the coup, the new rulers in Niger stopped military cooperation with the former colonial power France. What will happen to the thousand French soldiers is unclear for the time being. France still has more than 1000,24 troops stationed in Niger, among other things to fight Islamist terrorist militias in the Sahel. France's Foreign Ministry had already announced that the French channels France <> and RFI could no longer be received in Niger. In the West African country, officers of the presidential guard had arrested the democratically elected President Mohamed Bazoum last week.

Chancellor Karl Nehammer of the conservative ÖVP wants to enshrine this right in the constitution in the future. A "cash task force" is to drive the project forward, Austrian media report. The right-wing populist FPÖ in particular has stoked fears of an abolition of cash, while the ÖVP has always rejected such fears. The Greens, Nehammer's coalition partner, were apparently not informed about his initiative. The liberal Neos describe the initiative as a "populist sham debate"