Niger coup leaders close airspace, ignore international deadline to reinstate president 05:17. Johannesburg — A regional bloc of 15 nations in West Africa that had given the military coup ...

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Soldiers in Niger announce coup as guards take president hostage 04:36. Mutinous soldiers who staged a coup in Niger declared their leader the new head of state on Friday, hours after the general ...

CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) ... The four were transporting electrical equipment from Casablanca to Niamey, the capital of Niger, and had been on the road for more than 20 days along the 3,000-mile ...

Niger’s armed forces have been bringing in reinforcements to the capital to prepare for a potential military intervention, a military source told CNN, just hours after the military junta running ...

Niger President Mohamed Bazoum has been removed from power, according to a group of soldiers who appeared on the West African nation’s national television late on Wednesday, hours after the ...

Soldiers in Niger have announced a coup, imposing a curfew and closing borders in a country that is a key U.S. ally in West Africa. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said he spoke with Niger's ...

Niger's ousted President Mohamed Bazoum, seen in a 2022 file photograph, said he has been "deprived of all human contact" since Friday, with no one supplying him food or medicine.

Niger’s junta leader, Abdourahamane Tchiani, has been sworn in as the country’s president for a transition period of five years under a new charter that replaces the West African nation’s ...