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
To defend themselves, 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. Meanwhile, the United States is suspending more than 100 million in aid to niger. But officials insist theres still time to solve the crisis. I spoke to former state Department Official Bisa Williams earlier to get insights into the situation. We are now learning more about the Acting Deputy Secretary of states unsuccessful attempts to negotiate some kind of settlement to see a return to power of president Mohamed Bazoum. Why do you think she wasnt able to make any progress there . Im not sure i would characterise that as unsuccessful completely. My understanding was that the Acting Deputy Secretary left the door open for continued discussions and that basically
Yet, centred on his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. All of this comes as the former president runs in the hope of becoming the next president , courting the Republican Party nomination while facing mounting legal concerns. So, lets take a look at the latest charges filed against him yesterday. This time, he was accused of four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens. During a brief arraignment in the Nations Capital yesterday, mr trumps lawyer entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf. He later slammed the Usjustice Department while speaking to the press. When you look at what has happened, this is a persecution of a political opponent. Happened, this is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in america. This is the persecution of the person that is leading by very, very substantial numbers in the republican primary and leading biden by a lo
Of course this comes as the former president , runs in the hope of becoming the next president , courting the Republican Party nomination while facing mounting legal concerns. So lets take a look at the latest charges filed against him yesterday. This time he was accused of four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the United States, tampering with a witness and conspiracy against the rights of citizens. During a brief arraignment in the Nations Capital yesterday, mr trumps lawyer entered a plea of not guilty on his behalf. Now in the last hour, donald trump has been addressing a Summer Dinner hosted by the alabama Republican Party. Hes spoken about the various cases that have been brought against him recently. Take a listen. And then they filed them all, everyone of them, all at essentially one time, including local dbas and aeds, right in the middle of the campaign, where we are leading by so much and is not going to make any impact because every time they file an indictment, we g
Described in the indictment that was fuelled by lies, lies by the defendant, targeted at obstructing a Bedrock Function of the Us Government, the nations process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the president ial election. Our North America correspondent nomia iqbal joins me from outside the court. What will we see on thursday . These charges as you outlined there, the Department Of Justice believes it is held a strong case to show the former president of the us tried to select the Election Results of 2020 and essentially tried to overturn the policy. We mention one of the charges, Conspiracy To Defraud the United States, obstruct official proceedings, and others. This is the most serious Indictment Set by the donald trump basis, one of the most serious indictments the Department Ofjustice has brought against a president in terms of what they have laid out in the indictment against him. Having said that, despite the seriousness of it, Department Ofjustice has a cha